House candidates declare campaigns for districts that don't exist yet amid redistricting delays
Posted on AllSides July 8th, 2021
From The Left

Loretta Smith and Wesley Hunt are members of different parties, separated by both distance and policy.
And yet, Smith, an Oregon Democrat, and Hunt, a Texas Republican, find themselves in similar positions headed into the 2022 midterms: Both have announced plans to run for Congress, but neither know what the district they plan to run in will look like.
Smith and Hunt are among a growing group of politicians from both parties who, because of a delayed release of the district-level data from the 2020 US Census needed for each state...