RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina is one of several states where President Donald Trump asked lawmakers to find a way to make more Republican congressional seats. Tarheel state lawmakers sealed the deal Wednesday when the House voted to pass the new congressional maps.

“They’re really trying to disenfranchise people and we don’t think that’s fair,” U.S. House Representative Alma Adams from NC District 12 said. “We’re fighting back on that.”

Lawmakers voted in favor of the new maps after President Trump pushed them to protect Republican power in Congress before the next midterm election. Some critics say the new maps gerrymander Black voters in NC District 1 and 3.

“Racism is the final thing you go to when you don’t have anything else to go with,” Addul Ali, Chairman of NC 12th Congressiona

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