MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed Tuesday that the congressional redistricting map he is proposing will dismantle a congressional district designed to help Black voters living in the former plantation territories of North Florida.
“I think that what they’ll produce will be something that will be acceptable to folks and obviously we’d get my signature for proposing it,’’ he said at a bill-signing press conference in Miami. “It will, though, have North Florida drawn in a race-neutral manner.”
DeSantis has called legislators back into a special session on redistricting next week to redraw Florida congressional districts, and on Monday House and Senate leaders announced that, after successfully passing a legislative map that the court has approved, they will leave the map-drawing work on the congressional plan to the governor.
