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Lone Tennessee House Democrat says he will end re-election bid after state gerrymander<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

Steve Cohen<\/strong>, the lone House Democrat from Tennessee, announced that he would not seek re-election after his district was redrawn in the state\u2019s new congressional map.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is by far the most difficult moment I\u2019ve had as an elected official,\u201d<\/strong> Cohen, who has served in the US House since 2007, told reporters on Capitol Hill on Friday. \u201cI don\u2019t want to quit. I\u2019m not a quitter. But these districts were drawn to beat me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new map, passed by Tennessee\u2019s GOP-dominated legislature last week, splits up the ninth district and funnels Black voters in the Memphis area into three different constituencies.<\/p>\n

Now, all of Tennessee\u2019s congressional districts are Republican-leaning. The state\u2019s gerrymander came a week after the US supreme court<\/a> effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act.<\/a><\/p>\n