Louisiana redistricted the second and sixth districts to eliminate majority Black seats.

Posted by Deadline: White House, Oct 28, 2026Checked Nov 2, 2026

Polygraph verdictMixed

Sources: 3 contradict1 support2 context
Said: 1 time·
Confidence: 65%

Deadline: White HouseOct 28, 2026

Sources support that Louisiana's 2026 congressional map eliminated one majority-Black district, the 6th (Cleo Fields' Baton Rouge-to-Shreveport seat), but they show the 2nd District remained majority-Black, so the claim that both the 2nd and 6th were redistricted to eliminate majority-Black seats is only partly right. The 2nd was redrawn but not eliminated.

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What was said

… Yeah, all of your points, really, Michelle's and your point. If you push people, push voters down too far, what will they do? And I want to add one another set to your samples that you've been discussing, and that's Louisiana. Right after Calais, they wasted no time in redistricting, particularly two, two districts, the second and the six. These were majority Black districts, which they call we call cracking the vote, right? You spread that Black population over, and you eliminate seats. Let me show you what that has done to voter turnout, early vote in Louisiana. In 2002, at this time in 2002, 96,000 people had voted early. That's 26% of the total early vote that was Black early vote. …

Deadline: White House · Oct 28, 2026· from the transcriptPost →

What we found

Contradicts. The same reports say the 2nd District remains a majority-Black district based in New Orleans, so the 2nd was not eliminated as a majority-Black seat, which contradicts the claim's implication that both districts were cut to remove majority-Black seats.[1][3][4]

Supports. Multiple 2026 reports say the new congressional map eliminates one of two majority-Black districts, specifically the 6th District that snaked from Baton Rouge to Shreveport, and clusters it around predominantly white areas.[1][3][4][5]

Context. The 2022 map had one majority-Black district, the 2024 map added a second majority-Black district, and the 2026 law returned to a design with one majority-Black district.[2][3][4][6]