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Pointing to "the plain nastiness" of politics and threats he has faced, Representative Jared Golden of Maine will retire instead of trying to keep the reddest House seat held by a Democrat.
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Voters in California approved a redistricting plan intended to partially neutralize a push by President Trump to draw up more safe Republican House seats before next year's election. Kellen Browning, a political reporter for The New York Times based in San Francisco, explains how it happened and what's next.
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We get an overview of how Democrats won big across the United States in Tuesday's elections, with Daniel Nichanian, editor-in-chief of Bolts. Democratic Congressmember Mikie Sherrill won New Jersey's governor's race, and Abigail Spanberger flipped Virginia's governorship. In California, voters approved a new congressional map that could help Democrats pick up five additional congressional seats in a move to counter Texas's redistricting plan. Local races across the countries also saw widespread Democratic wins. Nichanian says he has "never really quite seen this level of systematic win for pretty much anything that there was [for Democrats] to win."
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The aggressive gerrymander could help Democrats flip as many as five House seats next year. While that could neutralize new maps in Texas, Republicans are redrawing more district lines elsewhere.
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