Every ten years, after the US Census collects all-new population data about America, state legislatures have an opportunity to re-draw the maps that outline Congressional Districts. That’s the time that they really get to move things around to their partisan advantage, benefiting whichever party is in control of the state’s legislature at the time.

Some redistricting commissions, however, are truly bipartisan, like California’s. Made up of 5 Democrats, 5 Republicans, and 4 commissioners who state “no party preference,” the composition of the group is meant to ensure fair redistricting maps and avoid partisan gerrymandering.

But some candidates are actually despicable to more than just their opposition, and Devin Nunes is one such politician. Nunes, famous for suing a fictional cow character on Twitter for hurting his feelings, looks like he may go down in flames in CA’s 22nd District after the commission drew the map in such a way that it got a lot more blue.

Just how much bluer? Well, according to Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report, it’s a pretty big swing. Nunes’ district is going from an area that went for Trump in 2020 by 5 points to one that, if it had been the district at the time of that election, would have gone to Biden by 9 points.

And even though it’s not an impossibility for Nunes to win in the new 22nd district, especially if the Republicans make the kind of gains in the House that are normal for the opposition to a president in a midterm election, the fact that he’s been so closely tied to Trump for the last half-decade — he was onboard early in Trump’s candidacy — could prove to be an albatross around his neck.

That will almost certainly be the way he’s portrayed by his Democratic opponent in the 2022 race: Endless videos of Nunes grandstanding and defending Trump during his impeachment trial and all of the ridiculous clips of his interviews on Fox News in the interim.

We’d wish you luck, Devin, but no.

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