{"id":457,"date":"2026-11-05T07:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2026-11-05T08:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T13:15:20","slug":"the-biggest-takeaway-from-the-gops-gerrymander-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"The biggest takeaway from the GOP\u2019s gerrymander failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Republicans attempted to hand-pick their own voters through gerrymandering, but the strategy backfired. Driven by hubris, greed, and a series of bad assumptions, the GOP&#x27;s redistricting effort ultimately exposed a fundamental weakness in the practice rather than delivering the electoral advantage they sought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/gop-midterm-gerrymander-fail-texas-florida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MS NOW \u2014 The biggest takeaway from the GOP\u2019s gerrymander failure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans attempted to hand-pick their own voters through gerrymandering, but the strategy backfired. Driven by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,2],"tags":[63,362,127,363,204],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2026","category-politics","tag-election-2026","tag-gerrymandering","tag-politics","tag-redistricting","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}