The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
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●AZ Redistricting: Arizona's Independent Redistricting Commission completed its work redrawing the districts the state will use for congressional and legislative elections for the coming decade, with the U.S. House map in particular a considerable departure in many respects from the one it replaces. Of note, most of the districts have been renumbered, but that's only where the changes begin.
Like the old map, the new one features five districts that Joe Biden would have won and four that would have gone for Donald Trump. These basic toplines, however, don't capture the extent of the differences, especially since two of the Biden districts would have gone blue only by the slimmest of margins. What's more, among potentially competitive districts, three Democratic-held seats became decidedly redder while only one Republican seat went in the other direction.