North Carolina becomes the third state where Republicans have heeded Trump's call and approved new district lines ahead of next year's midterms.

The North Carolina House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass a new congressional map into law, two days after the state Senate approved it, giving the Republican Party the chance to net a new seat in the 2026 midterms.

Unless the court intervenes, the map that the NAACP and voting rights advocates say were rushed through to approval will be used in the crucial 2026 midterms.

Republicans in North Carolina were slammed by critics who described the new congressional map as “morally wrong on all fronts.”

On I-95 in North Carolina, 181 miles separate South Carolina and Virginia. The 12th District on that map snaked along Interstate 85 between Durham and Mecklenburg counties through Orange, Alamance, Guilford, Forsyth, Davidson, Rowan and Iredell counties.

North Carolina’s state House passed a new Republican-drafted congressional map Wednesday, giving the party one additional pickup opportunity ahead of next year’s midterm elections. The new

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina approve new congressional map designed to boost GOP House control and potentially unseat Democratic Rep. Don Davis.

North Carolina’s new congressional map faces its second legal challenge. Republicans redrew the state’s only competitive district last week to give themselves an extra seat in the U.S. Congress to help President Donald Trump keep GOP control in the 2026 midterm elections.

Nearly 42 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) won’t receive their benefits on Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.