Morning Digest: This year's House map is even more tilted toward the GOP than last cycle's

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● House: Now that congressional maps are likely finalized for the 2024 elections, we know that the House battlefield will be even more tilted toward Republicans this year than it was in 2022. This state of affairs is a direct result of Republicans in Congress and the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority repeatedly blocking efforts to end gerrymandering nationwide.

We can demonstrate how this distortion works using Daily Kos Elections' calculations of the 2020 presidential election results for every district that will be used in 2024. These results are visualized in the cartogram at the top of this story (click here for a larger image), as well as in this traditional geographic map.