House candidates declare campaigns for districts that don’t exist yet amid redistricting delays
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(CNN)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.