{"id":1085,"date":"2026-05-15T17:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:40:45","slug":"tennessee-democrat-ends-re-election-bid-after-map-redrawing-carves-up-his-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Democrat ends re-election bid after map redrawing carves up his district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New map reshapes representative Steve Cohen\u2019s majority-Black Memphis<strong> <\/strong>district and gives Republicans an advantage<\/p>\n<p>Democratic representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee on Friday announced that he is ending his bid for re-election, his career upended by the redistricting battles that are sweeping the country after last month\u2019s supreme court decision.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Tennessee this month enacted a new US House map that carves up Cohen\u2019s majority-Black district, reshaping it to the GOP\u2019s advantage as part of Donald Trump\u2019s strategy to hold on to a slim majority in the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/tennessee-democrat-steve-cohen-ends-re-election-bid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New map reshapes representative Steve Cohen\u2019s majority-Black Memphis district and gives Republicans an advantage Democratic representative Steve Cohen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}