ELECTION/GERRYMANDERING/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Friday [8-31-18] that the prospect of North Carolina drawing new congressional districts just weeks before the November midterm elections is ‘unfair.’ A panel of federal judges this week struck down the state’s congressional map, saying Republican state legislators went too far in using political data to preserve GOP-held seats. The judges raised the possibility of drawing new districts by mid-September so they can be used in the Nov. 6 elections, or at least before the new Congress is seated in January. Republicans are objecting to the plan, which comes as the party — and Trump — fight to defend the GOP House majority. Trump addressed the redistricting issue during a fundraising appearance in Charlotte for a pair of GOP congressional candidates.”
–The Associated Press, “Trump Calls North Carolina Redistricting Ruling ‘Unfair’,” The New York Times online, August 31, 2018