Tennessee legislators are considering splitting up the growing city of Nashville into multiple congressional districts, a redistricting plan that would almost certainly doom the sitting Democratic representative and send a Republican to Washington in his place.
“There’s been people who have proposed to split Davidson County, and there have been those who have proposed not to split Davidson County,” state House Speaker Cameron Sexton, a Republican, told NBC News. “It’s possible.”
Sexton said the maps haven’t been drawn yet, and a draft won’t be made public until early January. But Democrats, particularly the one whose U.S. House seat could be in danger, have already begun sounding the alarm.
