By Kyle Ingram, The News & Observer (Raleigh)

RALEIGH, N.C. — Last week, North Carolina Republicans unveiled a plan, backed by President Donald Trump, to redraw the state’s congressional map in order to pick up another seat for the GOP in the 2026 midterms. Less than a week later, that map became law .

During the intervening six days, lawmakers held no public forums in the affected areas, did no outreach to voters whose districts would be changed and heard roughly two total hours of public comment during committee hearings in Raleigh where each speaker was limited to one minute.

Despite that, the legislature received over 12,000 public comments via an online portal it set up.

A cursory review of the comments, which were released to the public by House Minority Leader Robert Reives,

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