The Florida Legislature will begin redistricting this week with the goal of bringing more Republicans to Congress.
The original plan was to win one or two Democratic seats. Today, that number has increased to at least five.
But some conservatives feel the Florida Republican Party has become so greedy that it could harm them.
“(Florida’s) Democratic Party is pretty much compactly concentrated in these urban areas, so if Republicans try to squeeze out a few more seats, it could leave them too thin and a blue wave could lead to more Democratic seats,” said Alicia Finley of the Wall St. Journal Editorial Board.
Finley says he’s seeing an overwhelming shift among independent voters toward Democrats.
Karl Rove, a prominent Republican analyst, told Fox News that the Florida redistricting plan comes with some risk.
“What they’re going to do is take Republican votes from Republican districts and move them into Democratic districts,” Loeb said on Fox & Friends. “And that will devalue some incumbent Republicans, and they may lose a seat or two.”
The Wall Street Journal’s Dan Hennigar said the debate over state divisions shows why there is so much polarization and constant political battle in the United States.
“This is why these people with safe seats in the House have no reason to compromise or make deals on anything, and our politics will only get worse and worse,” Henninger said.
