{"id":15210,"date":"2025-12-15T17:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/in-shift-sen-bennet-supports-emergency-redistricting-for-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:33:34","slug":"in-shift-sen-bennet-supports-emergency-redistricting-for-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/in-shift-sen-bennet-supports-emergency-redistricting-for-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"In shift, Sen. Bennet supports emergency redistricting for Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) speaks to a full house during a town hall meeting on Tuesday in Fort Lewis College\u2019s Mainstage Theatre. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat who is running for Colorado governor in 2026, would support a constitutional amendment to allow the state to redraw its congressional districts to offset partisan gerrymandering in other states.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has urged Republican-led states to redraw their congressional lines so the party can pick up more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives next year. Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio are among the states that have completed mid-decade redistricting to give Republicans an advantage. California voters approved a ballot measure last month to redraw the state\u2019s maps to counter Republican gerrymandering.<\/p>\n

Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat who is also running for governor in 2026, was the first statewide elected official in Colorado to support the idea of redrawing the state\u2019s congressional districts mid-cycle. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who is running for attorney general in 2026, has also supported a ballot initiative to allow for emergency redistricting.<\/p>\n

A state constitutional amendment proposed for next year\u2019s Colorado ballot would give the governor emergency redistricting power to offset \u201cnational redistricting imbalances.\u201d The earliest any new maps could be drawn under that amendment would be for the 2028 election cycle, and Bennet previously said that would be \u201ctoo late.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Bennet says \u201cwe have no choice but to fight back\u201d as Trump and Republicans followed the \u201cdangerous path\u201d of mid-cycle redistricting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI support a one-time change to Colorado\u2019s constitution so we can do our part. That process begins in 2026, but our maps won\u2019t change until 2028,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cRight now, the most important thing we can do is flip the House of Representatives in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

An independent redistricting commission for the first time redrew congressional maps in Colorado in 2021, creating the highly competitive 8th Congressional District on the Front Range north of Denver. Democrats represent four districts and Republicans represent four districts.<\/p>\n

To read more stories from Colorado Newsline, visit www.coloradonewsline.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018We have no choice but to fight back,\u2019 senator says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,994,25],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-trueanthem","tag-u-s-sen-michael-bennet"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19537,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions\/19537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15210"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}