Freedom Caucus Chair Rep. Andy Harris talks to reporters as he walks to the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on July 2, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
When asked about Democrats pushing the move last week, Harris took aim at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's Redistricting Advisory Commission.
"His partisan gerrymandering commission certainly lived up to its name," Harris told Fox News Digital with a laugh. "They literally drew the district across a five-mile-long Bay Bridge to go into two other pieces of two other different counties."
Harris pointed out that even Maryland's Senate President Bill Ferguson, a Democrat, criticized the new map when it was released last week.
The Maryland State House pictured on April 22, 2025. (Jonathan Newton/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
It began last year when Texas' GOP-led legislature pushed through a new congressional map that could give Republicans as many as five new seats in the House of Representatives come the November midterms.
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California quickly followed suit with its own successful referendum to redraw its maps in favor of Democrats.
Democrats in Virginia are now eyeing ways to make their congressional map more favorable to Democrats, and North Carolina Republicans approved a new map late last year that would imperil the state's lone House Democrat.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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