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Doggett bows out after SCOTUS upholds GOP-drawn map — warns GOP's redistricting could backfire

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1 month ago

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, announced he would not seek re-election after a Supreme Court decision upheld the redline Republicans had drawn through his district, a decision emblematic of the tough calculus Democrats face in the Lone Star State amid a new slate of congressional districts. Despite his personal loss, Doggett, 79, believes Democrats have a unique reason for optimism: he thinks Republicans have given themselves a vulnerability in their redistricting efforts by basing their rework on the results of the last election — and that in doing so they may have spread themselves too thin. "...