Census Delays Could Help Republicans in 2021

FiveThirtyEight: “New Jersey and Virginia have been hardest hit by the delays, as they’re the only states that hold elections for their state legislatures in 2021. Their redistricting commissions simply didn’t have enough time to remap their legislatures ahead of this year’s elections, so each state has opted to hold these contests under the current lines.”

“In Virginia, for instance, the old lines could help Republicans this November because much of the House of Delegates map was originally drawn as a Republican gerrymander.”

“The current lines can’t account for population growth since 2010, predominantly concentrated in Democratic-leaning Northern Virginia.”