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IowaRepublicans got good news on Thursday when Iowa's nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency (a state bureau tasked with drafting maps for the legislature's consideration) released a new proposal in which all four districts would have voted for Donald Trump in 2020. Under the first proposal, which the GOP-controlled legislature voted down on October 5, President Biden would have carried two of four seats.
Unlike the first draft, which would have created a Democratic-leaning seat in eastern Iowa, this is a "least changes" plan that would keep Iowa's four largest Democratic vote centers — Des Moines, Ames, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City — in separate districts. GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson (IA-01), who would have found herself in a Biden-won seat in the rejected map,
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