Redrawing Congressional districts has begun in Columbus, with the most challenging aspect of the process for Republicans in control of the process how to create a constitutionally defensible district that dislodges Democrat Marcy Kaptur from the seat she’s held since 1983.

Statehouse Democrats went through the motions of unveiling their proposed districts in the first meeting of the Joint Committee on Congressional Redistricting on Monday.

The Democrat-produced map would most likely create an 8 to 7 split in the Ohio delegation to the U.S. House in favor of the Republicans. That map has zero chance of emerging from a process controlled by the Ohio GOP that is looking to turn a 10-5 House advantage into a 12-3 Republican lean.

The betting is that Republicans will extend Ms. Kaptur’s exis

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