Ron DeSantis made a move Democrats hoped would never happen.
The Left knows what's coming next for them.
And Democrats went into full meltdown after Ron DeSantis just called this special session.
DeSantis Announces April Redistricting Session
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dropped a bombshell Wednesday that sent Democrats into total panic mode.
He's calling a special legislative session for April 20-24 to redraw Florida's congressional maps.
The timing isn't coincidental.
DeSantis is waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and make it nearly impossible to challenge the elimination of majority-minority districts.
"We are going to do it in the later part of April, partially because there's a Supreme Court decision that's going to affect the validity of some of these districts nationwide, including some of the districts in the state of Florida," DeSantis said at a press conference in Steinhatchee.
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The Florida Governor knows exactly what he's doing.
He's playing chess while Democrats are stuck playing checkers.
President Trump has been pushing Republican-controlled states across the country to redraw their maps before the 2026 midterms.
Texas answered the call and added five new GOP seats.
Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio followed suit.
Now Florida is joining the fight, and Republicans could pick up three to five additional House seats from the Sunshine State alone.
"You are looking at a place in Florida where we can pick up three, four seats and that would bring us more in line to where we are in our voting population," Florida GOP Chairman Evan Power told reporters.
Power later upped that estimate to five seats.
The math is brutal for Democrats.
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DNC Chair Ken Martin Throws Tantrum Over "Rigged" Maps
DNC Chair Ken Martin went ballistic in response to DeSantis' announcement.
"Ron DeSantis is bending the knee to Washington Republicans once again by agreeing to rig Florida's congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms," Martin whined in a statement.
Martin claimed Republicans are only redrawing maps because they know "Trump's Big Ugly Bill and his disastrous economic policies that are raising costs will cost them the election."
That's rich coming from the party that just spent years defending California's redistricting grab that added five Democratic seats.
Martin's statement didn't address DeSantis' actual argument for why Florida needs new maps.
The Governor pointed out that Florida's population has exploded since 2020, with Republicans gaining 1.4 million more registered voters than Democrats.
The current maps don't reflect that massive shift.
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"Our population has changed so much in the last 4 or 5 years," DeSantis explained.
"We need to get apportioned properly, and people deserve equal representation."
Instead of engaging with facts, Martin resorted to the same tired Democrat playbook – scream about healthcare and blame Trump for everything.
"In Florida alone, hundreds of thousands of families are about to be kicked off their health care, and millions more are seeing their insurance premiums skyrocket, all because of Donald Trump and Florida Republicans," Martin said.
The Florida Democrat Party piled on with their own hysterical statement calling DeSantis' move "reckless, partisan and opportunistic."
"This is nothing more than a desperate attempt to rig the system and silence voters before the 2026 election," the party claimed.
Democrats sure love talking about "rigging" elections when they're the ones losing.
Where was all this concern when California Democrats bypassed their own nonpartisan redistricting commission to draw new maps?
The hypocrisy is staggering.
Republicans currently hold 20 of Florida's 28 congressional seats.
Democrats only have eight – and they're about to lose more.
Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez created a select committee last year to examine redistricting options after the Florida Supreme Court upheld DeSantis' previous congressional map.
The court ruling demolished Democrat arguments that the 2022 map violated Florida's Fair Districts Amendment.
Now DeSantis is positioned to finish what he started.
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Democrats passed the Fair Districts Amendment in 2010 claiming they wanted to end partisan gerrymandering.
But the amendment didn't stop them from fighting tooth and nail to preserve majority-minority districts that reliably elected Democrats.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule that considering race when drawing districts violates the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause.
That's going to blow up at least one or two Florida districts that Democrats count on.
DeSantis is getting ahead of that ruling and making sure Florida's maps comply with whatever decision comes down.
Republicans have added nine potential new seats nationwide through redistricting in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio.
Democrats countered with six seats from California and Utah.
Florida could swing the balance decisively in Republicans' favor.
The GOP's House majority is razor-thin at 218-213.
Every seat matters when Democrats need just three to flip control and subject President Trump to their impeachment fantasies.
Martin promised Democrats would fight back.
"The DNC and Florida Democrats are all hands on deck to stop Trump's power grab and protect Florida voters," Martin declared.
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"Republicans wanted a showdown — and they're going to get one."
Democrats can throw all the tantrums they want.
The numbers don't lie.
Florida has become a solidly Republican state, and the congressional maps are about to reflect that reality.
Martin's desperate rhetoric about rigging elections won't change the fact that Floridians have rejected Democrat policies in overwhelming numbers.
Republicans turned a 2-point voter registration disadvantage into a 10-point advantage in just seven years.
That's not rigging – that's winning.
And Democrats can't stand it.
Sources:
- A.G. Gancarski, "Democratic National Committee accuses Gov. DeSantis of seeking to 'rig' congressional map," Florida Politics, January 8, 2026.
- Jane C. Timm, "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis calls April special session on redistricting," NBC News, January 7, 2026.
- Mike Schneider and David Fischer, "Gov. Ron DeSantis calls for special session to redraw Florida's congressional districts," Associated Press, January 7, 2026.
- Victor Nava, "DeSantis announces special session on Florida redistricting ahead of 2026 midterms," New York Post, January 8, 2026.
