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Bloomberg Government reporter analyzing elections, Congress, redistricting. TCM, trivia fan. News.bgov.com

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 17d

U.S. House Special Elections, 1957-present:
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Updated with Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva's victory Tuesday in #AZ07

U.S. House Special Elections, 1957-present (Greg Giroux)

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 5d

Maine Auditor Matt Dunlap announces Democratic primary challenge to US Rep. Jared Golden, who has the pro-Trump '24 district of any Democrat and was the only House Democrat who voted for the GOP continuing resolution last month. #me02
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Maine Democrat Gets Primary Foe After Backing GOP Spending Plan

Maine Auditor Matt Dunlap, a longtime state officeholder, will run in a 2026 Democratic primary to unseat Rep. Jared Golden, the only House Democrat who voted for Republicans’ short-term spending bill...

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 9d

"Over the next week-and-a-half, lawyers defending the maps for Texas will argue in an El Paso courtroom that state lawmakers drew them strictly to hand Republicans five additional seats in Washington ..."

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Texas’ Political Motives on Trial in Redistricting Fight (1)

One question in Texas’ redistricting fight could determine which party controls Congress in the latter half of President Donald Trump’s term: Did race or politics prompt the state’s rare mid-decade re...

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 10d

Madison Cawthorn (R), former North Carolina congressman, filed to seek Florida's 19th Congressional District, which Byron Donalds is giving up to run for governor
docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form... #FL19
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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 10d

[Kamala] "Harris for President" campaign committee is now "Fight for the People PAC" per FEC filing today:
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Form 1 for Fight for the People PAC

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 14d

In the 2022 redistricting, Kansas Republican mapmakers left Johnson alone & instead splintered D-heavy Wyandotte County. That lowered Biden's 2020 margin in #KS03 to +4 from +11, though Davids was +12 in 2022 and +11 in 2024 (running ahead of Harris's +4)

Current map vs 2010s map (black lines):

Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 14d

These days, making Davids's #KS03 red would require chopping Johnson County (suburban KC), which accounts for 83% of the district population and has shifted sharply from Rs in the past generation

Johnson went from Bush +23 in 2004 to Harris +8 in 2024:

Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 14d

Kansas Republican legislators would need near-unanimous buy-in to call a special session and also eventually override veto over Dem Gov Laura Kelly's opposition. Both need 2/3 supermajority.

Senate 31R/9D, House 88R/37D per great NCSL chart below (1 House R resigned this week). #KS03

Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 14d

“Voters should be choosing their representatives and not the other way around."

GOP's "extreme policies are so unpopular that they know they can’t win unless they cheat."

-US Rep Sharice Davids (D-KS) to me this week about a potential re-redistricting in her state: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

Kansas Republicans Weigh New Map Targeting Lone Democrat Davids

Kansas Republicans, who failed to unseat Rep. Sharice Davids after redrawing her congressional district earlier this decade, may try again to oust the state’s only Democrat in Congress with a more agg...

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 15d

Will NEBRASKA join in the mid-decade redistricting?

US Rep. Adrian Smith (R): "I would be surprised. Our unicameral legislature is more of a Senate than a House by rules, so the filibuster applies." (h/t my Bloomberg Government colleague Maeve Sheehey) #NE02

Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 15d

Missouri redistricting: Gov. Mike Kehoe will sign new Republican congressional map on Sunday

Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 16d

The Murkowskis and the Grijalvas. Very little overlap between the West Virginia US House district Shelley Moore Capito held and the district her father had in the mid-1960s.

Pelosi (CA)/D'Alesandro (MD) and Miller (WV)/Devine (OH) represented different states.

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 16d

Answers:
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.)
Rep. Carol Miller (Samuel Devine)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Frank Murkowski)
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (Arch A. Moore Jr.)

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 16d

Utah’s redistricting committee has convened to discuss proposed remedial congressional maps:
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Utah Legislative Committee Information

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 16d

US Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona) will succeed her late father Raúl Grijalva, who served in the House for 22 years. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

TRIVIA: Can you name the members of the current 119th Congress who are daughters of former members of Congress?

Adelita Grijalva Poised to Be Arizona’s First Latina in Congress

Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva is on a glidepath to succeed her late father in the House and become the first Latina to represent her state in Congress, where she plans to continue his progressive ...

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 16d

Including Adelita Grijalva, 152 women in Congress (126 House, 26 Senate) = 28.5% of the 533 occupied seats (2 vacancies in House).

Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 16d

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 17d

“I want to break all of those glass ceilings and make sure that my daughter knows that this is a path if she wants it,” Adelita Grijalva told me.
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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 17d

US Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona):

• 1st Latina to serve AZ in Congress
• Record number of Latinas in Congress h/t @cawp-ru.bsky.social
• 152 women in Congress (both chambers) ties record set late last year
• 218th signature on Epstein discharge petition
• House will be 219R/214D

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 17d

U.S. House Special Elections, 1957-present:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Updated with Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva's victory Tuesday in #AZ07

U.S. House Special Elections, 1957-present (Greg Giroux)

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 24d

Merry Constitution Day!

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 28d

MISSOURI (RE-)REDISTRICTING: Republican legislature gave final approval to GOP Gov. Mike Kehoe's "7-1" map endorsed by President Trump, favoring Republicans in 7 of 8 districts and targeting longtime KC-area Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver:
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#moleg #mo05

Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 29d

Answers here: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

Staffer-to-Lawmaker Pipeline Grows With Walkinshaw’s Election

Virginia Democrat James Walkinshaw is not only joining the House, but becoming a member of an even more exclusive club — former congressional chiefs of staff who make it back to Capitol Hill as lawmak...

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · 29d

Trivia time!

1. What US House member running for governor in 2026 was chief of staff to the governor last decade?

2. A US senator was previously chief of staff to a person who's now his junior Senate colleague. Name them.

3. Identify the missing name below from a 1976 article

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Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · Sep 10

Walkinshaw: “I rise with profound gratitude and humility as I begin my service on behalf of Virginia’s 11th District. As a lifelong northern Virginian, I am honored by the trust my community has placed in me.” #VA11

Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · Sep 10

The 3 vacant House districts

#AZ07 (Raúl Grijalva/D): Sept. 23 election

#TN07 (Mark Green/R): Dec. 2 election

#TX18 (Sylvester Turner/D): Nov. 4 all-candidate, all-party election probably won’t produce majority-vote winner; Jan 2026 runoff likely

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