Wisconsin Republicans in the Senate and Assembly passed legislative maps on Tuesday drawn up by Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) before the state’s Democratic-appointed majority Supreme Court could approve maps that would have been more detrimental to the GOP ahead of the election.
The Senate passed the maps in an 18-14 vote, with one Democrat voting along with most Republicans and five Republicans joining nine Democrats opposing it, per the Associated Press.
“Republicans were not stuck between a rock and hard place,” state Sen. Van Wanggaard said in a statement. “It was a matter of choosing to be stabbed, shot, poisoned or led to the guillotine. We chose to be stabbed, so we can live to fight another day.”
While Republicans did not make any alterations to the lines of the newly
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