About a week after taking charge of the redistricting process, the New York Legislature released a set of Congressional maps that reflect the results of the 2020 Census on Sunday.
Republicans have pushed back on the proposed lines for boosting the Democrats’ chances to flip several seats in the 2022 elections at a time when the party’s congressional majority could be in jeopardy. In the firmly Democratic territory of Manhattan, however, the impact of the new maps will play out in the Democratic primary, and is likely to either benefit incumbent lawmakers or prove negligible.
