New Hampshire Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte has ruled out redrawing the state’s congressional maps to give her party an edge in the midterm elections.
The White House has been pressuring Republican governors around the country to engage in a rare mid-decade redistricting as a last resort to keeping their House majority.
In Texas, Republicans called a special legislative session to redraw district lines causing Democrats to leave the state therefore denying quorum to pass the new map.
Other Republican-led states are also considering mid-decade redistricting prompting Democrats, including California and New York, to pursue efforts to do the same.
Ayotte told a local outlet that she has no interest in dragging New Hampshire into the redistricting tit-for-tat.
“The timing is off for this, because we are literally in the middle of the census period,” she said in an interview with WMUR. “And when I talk to people in New Hampshire, this isn’t just — it’s not on the top of their priority list.”
