Louisiana Rep. Gar­ret Graves will not seek reelec­tion in 2024

Rep. Gar­ret Graves (R‑LA) will not seek reelec­tion in 2024 after redis­trict­ing shift­ed his once-sol­id-red seat into the favor of Democ­rats, argu­ing a run in anoth­er dis­trict is “not fair” to his fel­low House Repub­li­cans.
Graves had been unde­cid­ed for months on which dis­trict he would run for reelec­tion in after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana must hold its 2024 con­gres­sion­al elec­tions using a map that has two major­i­ty-black dis­tricts.
“It is evi­dent that a run in any tem­po­rary dis­trict will cause actu­al per­ma­nent dam­age to Louisiana’s great rep­re­sen­ta­tion in Con­gress,” Graves said in a state­ment Fri­day. “Cam­paign­ing in any of these dis­tricts now is not fair to any of the Louisia­ni­ans who will inevitably be tossed into yet anoth­er dis­trict next year.”
The deci­sion to use the …