Ohio Republican and Democratic lawmakers are set to agree to a deal on a new congressional map that would give a slight, but not overwhelming, boost to the GOP ahead of next year’s midterm elections, a source familiar with negotiations told NBC News.

Members of the state's bipartisan redistricting commission plan to make the deal public at a Thursday meeting that would shift two Democratic-held districts to the right and one to the left. It would also maintain 10 districts that favor Republicans and two that are Democratic strongholds. Punchbowl News was first to report details of the deal.

The deal comes as a surprise to many observers. Democrats largely expected the constitutionally mandated redistricting commission to reach a stalemate, as it did in 2021. If the commission failed to

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