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CNN Uses Fuzzy Math to Claim Nancy Mace Pandering to More GOP District

On Sunday’s Inside Politics on CNN, host Manu Raju tried to undermine Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) taking a stand against men using women’s restrooms in the Capitol by wrongly claiming that her district has become substantially more Republican, thus suggesting that she has flip-flopped on transgender issues to pander to a more conservative district.

While Raju suggested that the district had gotten double digits more Republican in its voting patterns, the Almanac of American Politics reports that, after the district was redrawn in 2022, it voted a mere 1.4 percentage points more for Donald Trump in 2020 than it did under the old lines. DailyKos similarly found that Trump received 52.1 percent in 2020 under the old lines, but 53.5 percent the same year under the new lines.

Host Manu Raju began the segment by relating that transgender issues hurt Democrats…

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