Encore une fois, Chloé Jouannet a partagé un moment fun et complice avec sa mère et sa tante, Alexandra et Audrey Lamy. Petite nouveauté ici: le petit-ami de la jeune fille, Zacharie Chasseriaud, était aussi de la partie.

Il n’y a pas si longtemps, de cette tribu, on ne connaissait qu’Alexandra Lamy, alias l’inénarrable Chouchou d’Un gars, une fille. Quelle ne fut pas notre surprise de découvrir quelques années plus tard qu’une actrice aussi déjantée que la première sévissait sur le petit écran avec autant de succès, et surtout qu’elle n’était autre que sa soeur, Audrey Lamy. Cela a été frappant après la rupture d’Alexandra Lamy avec Jean Dujardin, mais les deux soeurs sont particulièrement proches, et font régulièrement des apparitions ensemble, illuminant l’assemblée de leurs sourires généreux et un peu fous. Voilà qu’il y a peu, une nouvelle blondinette est venue compléter le duo. La craquante Chloé Jouannet, comédienne comme sa mère, Alexandra, et sa tante, Audrey, marche dans les pas de ses ainées et prend part à leurs folles soirées.

Ça ne s’arrête pas là! Depuis quelques temps, la jeune fille, âgée de 19 ans, s’affiche de façon de plus en plus explicite avec un certain Zacharie Chasseriaud… comédien! Et ceux qui pensaient que les jeunes tourtereaux auraient repoussé le moment gênant de la rencontre avec la belle-famille se sont bien trompés. Non seulement le jeune tourne avec Belle-Maman dans Nos Patriotes, mais en plus, il se joint aux joyeuses soirées du trio, visiblement très bien intégré. Chloé Jouannet a en effet posté quelques photos de leur dernière soirée en date, samedi, où le garçon soigneusement placé au centre du girls crew a l’air bien à son aise. Il ne devait toutefois pas se trouver assez photogénique puisque depuis quelques heures, le cliché a disparu du compte Instagram de la jeune fille. Seules persistent quelques photos de groupe où l’ambiance délurée et chaleureuse se devine.

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“La Grande Bellezza” est le grand vainqueur de la 26e cérémonie des European Film Awards qui se tenait ce samedi à Berlin. Le film de Paolo Sorrentino remporte quatre prix : meilleur film, meilleur réalisateur, meilleur acteur et meilleur montage. La France décroche deux statuettes : meilleur scénario pour “Dans la maison” et le prix du public pour “La Cage dorée”.

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Asaf Sudri (Le Coeur a ses raisons)

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Humilié dès le premier tour de la primaire des Républicains, le 20 novembre dernier, Jean-François Copé est aujourd’hui affaibli politiquement. Le regard tourné vers le futur, le maire de Meaux propose ses talents de pianiste aux leaders de son parti.

Voilà ce qui s’appelle se prendre une claque. Le 20 novembre dernier, le maire de Meaux, Jean-François Copé, était candidat au premier tour de la primaire de son parti, Les Républicains. Des sept candidats en lice pour l’élection, l’ancien secrétaire d’Etat est arrivé bon dernier. Avec un score abyssale de 0.3% des votes, Jean-François Copé est même parvenu à réunir 50.000 voix de moins que le méconnu Jean-Frédéric Poisson. Quant au vainqueur, François Fillon, plus de quatre millions de voix le séparent de monsieur Copé. La situation cataclysmique dans laquelle se trouve aujourd’hui l’ancien porte-parole du Gouvernement le force bien évidemment à réévaluer sa position, voire même à remettre en question sa carrière politique.

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Quelles issues pour un politique de métier? La musique peut-être. Après tout, Jean-François Copé n’a jamais caché son affection toute particulière pour le jazz et la bossa-nova. L’ancien patron de l’UMP joue d’ailleurs assez bien du piano. Avec ses amis, il a même constitué un groupe de musique nommé « melding potes ». De quoi lui donner une bien belle idée. Une campagne politique a toujours besoin de musique, Jean-François Copé a donc une carte à jouer. « Si jamais vous cherchez un pianiste pas cher, je suis là ! » a-t-il ainsi déclaré à ses collègues selon le Lab’ d’Europe 1. Spots publicitaire, musique d’ascenseur au siège du parti ou discret accompagnement durant les discours de François Fillon, rien n’arrêtera l’ancien ministre délégué. Avec sa petite phrase, Jean-François Copé démontre en tout cas que son score calamiteux n’a pas eu raison de son sens de l’humour et encore moins de son autodérision. Une qualité indispensable pour un jour espérer rebondir en politique. A moins qu’il ne soit sincèrement à la recherche d’un poste de pianiste.

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Nombreuses ont été aussi les personnalités à honorer, sur Twitter, la mémoire de Claude Gensac. Cette “figure souriante du cinéma français“, décédée dans son sommeil, dans la nuit de lundi 26 à mardi 27 décembre.

“La biche“ du cinéma français n’est plus. Claude Gensac est décédée mardi 27 décembre, à 89 ans. Elle qui avait été dix fois l’épouse de Louis de Funès à l’écran avait joué dans plus d’une centaine de films. En 2013, on l’apercevait encore dans Elle s’en va, d’Emmanuelle Bercot, ou dans Lulu femme nue de Solveig Anspach, ce qui lui a même valu d’être nommée au César de la meilleure actrice dans le second rôle, à 88 ans.

Connue pour son rôle de Josépha, la femme de Ludovic Cruchot (Louis de Funès) dans la série Les Gendarmes, Claude Gensac avait également fait carrière au théâtre. La nouvelle de sa mort a rapidement fait le tour de la Toile. Sur les réseaux sociaux, ils ont été des milliers à lui rendre hommage. Pour les twittos, l’actrice est “une puissante évocation de leur enfance“.

Nombreuses ont été aussi les personnalités à honorer sa mémoire, à commencer par le président de la République François Hollande. Avec elle “disparaît une figure souriante du cinéma français“, est-il écrit dans un communiqué de l’Elysée. “Connue de tous les Français pour avoir incarné à l’écran l’épouse de Louis de Funès dans la série les gendarmes, elle a conservé tout au long de sa vie son sens du jeu et de l’ironie“, poursuit le texte.

Invité de RTL Matin ce mercredi 28 décembre, le comédien Jean-Pierre Castaldi qui lui a donné la réplique au théâtre a évoqué “une femme très exigeante, très très drôle, pince-sans-rire, gourmande, (…) et follement amoureuse de son métier. C’est une grande dame qui nous a quittés. C’est un gros gros chagrin“, a-t-il ajouté.

L’humoriste Vincent Dedienne a également fait part de sa tristesse : “Je pleure doucement Claude Gensac, qui brillait bien fort dans ma constellation d’enfance… elle était trop jolie.“ Un message qui a ensuite été partagé par Sonia Rolland notamment.

Autre personnalité à saluer le talent de l’actrice française, la comédienne Véronique Genest. L’interprète de Julie Lescaut a rendu hommage dans un tweet à alias Julie “notre grande Claude Gensac“, ainsi qu’à “notre bien aimée Leia, repartie dans les étoiles“.

Un autre comédien, Laurent Kérusoré, connu pour son rôle dans la série Plus Belle la Vie, a également salué la mémoire de la comédienne. “Adieu ma biche ! Claude Gensac nous quitte. Une partie de mon enfance…“ se désole-t-il, toujours sur twitter.

À noter qu’en souvenir de “Madame la Colonelle“, future épouse du maréchal des logis Cruchot, dans Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez, les forces de l’ordre ont levé le chapeau. Ce “coup de képi“ a été posté sur le compte officiel Twitter de la Gendarmerie nationale.

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L’accent est souvent mis sur le côté néfaste des réseaux sociaux, hier, le journaliste Samuel Etienne a pourtant prouvé que Twitter peut également sauver des vies.

Il est 21h42, vendredi soir, lorsqu’un message inquiétant apparaît sur le réseau social Twitter. Un utilisateur niçois prénommé Julien se connecte à son compte et publie les quelques mots suivant: « Cher twitter. Cette fois j’ai décidé d’en finir. Je vais prendre assez de cachets pour m’endormir pour toujours. Adieu à tous ». Au même moment, très loin de là, le journaliste Samuel Etienne profite de quelques jours de vacances à l’étranger avec sa famille. Alors qu’il jette un œil à son feed Twitter pour se tenir au courant de l’actualité politique, l’animateur d’Europe 1 tombe sur le message de détresse. Immédiatement, il tente de prendre contact avec le jeune homme en difficulté. « Julien, je vois que tu me suis… On parle en message privé s’il te plait ??? ».

Pas de réponse. Là où de nombreuses personnes auraient alors pu baisser les bras ou penser à une plaisanterie de mauvais goût, Samuel Etienne persiste. Il se lance à la recherche des amis de Julien, tente de trouver une personne susceptible de le connaître dans la vraie vie. L’animateur lance plusieurs messages rapidement relayés par d’autres twittos. Cette chaîne improvisée parvient à entrer en contact avec une personne résident à Nice. Un peu moins d’une heure après leur premier échange, Samuel Etienne donne des nouvelles de Julien à ses followers. « Julien a été pris en charge par les pompiers et emmené vers l’hôpital Pasteur. On pense fort à lui. » Contacté par France 3 Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur, le journaliste se montre particulièrement humble, insistant sur le fait que les vrais héros de l’histoire, à ses yeux, sont « les personnes qui ont agis à Nice ». Lui, minimise-t-il, “n’a fait qu’envoyer quelques messages« . Samuel Etienne salue donc la réaction de la Toile et de ses nombreux confrères, parfois plus suivis que lui, qui n’ont pas hésité à relayer son message et ont ainsi augmenté les chances qu’avait la victime d’être secourue. Pour conclure sur une note positive, le journaliste a partagé ce samedi le message d’un proche de Julien. »Julien s’est réveillé ce matin. Il est bien sûr toujours à l’hôpital ». Une fin heureuse due à l’existence des réseaux sociaux mais par-dessus tout à l’abnégation d’un journaliste altruiste.

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SPOKANE, Wash. — 

A right-wing lawmaker from Washington state said Friday that a recent report that branded him a ‘’domestic terrorist’’ is a lie and that he will continue to represent the people of his district.

Democrats and some Republicans have called for state Rep. Matt Shea of Spokane Valley to resign in the wake of a December report involving anti-government activities. Shea has refused to resign.

He issued a statement saying he will be in the chamber when the state House convenes its 2020 session on Monday.

“I look forward to continuing to represent the people of my district,” Shea wrote. “I do so with a renewed sense of the importance of our Constitution’s protections for the powerless against the vindictiveness of the powerful.”

The report commissioned by the state House was released in December and concluded that Shea helped plan, engaged in and promoted three armed conflicts against the U.S. government in Nevada, Idaho and Oregon in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

In particular, Shea’s work to organize and urge supporters to attend the 2016 standoff with authorities at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon was branded domestic terrorism by the report by the Rampart Group, a Seattle-based private investigation agency.

The report prompted House Republicans to immediately expel Shea from their caucus.

House Republican Leader J.T. Wilcox said Thursday at a legislative forum sponsored by The Associated Press that Shea “is not a House Republican.”

But Wilcox believes it is up to the voters of Shea’s Spokane Valley district to kick him out of the Legislature.

“Matt Shea should resign,” incoming House Speaker Laurie Jinkins (D-Tacoma) said Thursday at the forum. “And if he does not resign he should be expelled.”

Jinkins said Democrats alone cannot expel Shea and would need the votes of at least some Republicans to reach a two-thirds majority. Nine Republicans would need to vote for expulsion.

“I don’t know how this is going to end up,” Jinkins said.

Shea on Friday attacked the 108-page report, which he had refused to be interviewed for.

“I have been falsely accused of being a ‘domestic terrorist’ by a private investigator who never spoke to the principals involved in the incidents she described and relied instead on anonymous sources,” Shea wrote.

“This is a lie,” Shea wrote.

Shea also said he has not been contacted by the FBI or the U.S. attorney’s office, despite Jinkins saying she had forwarded the report to those agencies.

Shea said Jinkins should respect the role of federal law enforcement to make charging decisions.

The report also found that Shea in the past had condoned intimidating opponents and promoted militia training by the so-called patriot movement — which views the U.S. as a Christian nation under siege — for possible armed conflict with law enforcement.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed state budget includes $900 million to recruit and retain teachers, part of a plan to attack a critical statewide shortage of instructors, especially in math, sciences and for students with disabilities.

The plan, included in his $222.2-billion budget unveiled Friday in Sacramento, was among a range of education measures that also includes the creation of an early childhood development department, significantly more money to cover the costs of teaching students with disabilities and a funding boost to the school lunch program, a hedge against possible reductions at the federal level.

Overall, permanent funding increases were modest as Newsom relied on one-time spending as a safeguard against potential leaner revenue in future years. Higher education and K-12 schools combine to represent about half the state’s general fund spending.

The final budget must be approved by the Legislature and will be updated in May.

The governor expressed disappointment with student achievement levels, noting that Latino and black students continue to score on the low end of an unacceptable achievement gap. Despite some measurable performance gains, Newsom said, “none of us are naive, and none of us are spiking the ball.”

Newsom’s proposals would make it more affordable to become a teacher and offer more pay for them to serve where most needed. One proposal would provide $100 million to fund a $20,000 bonus for teachers who work four years in a high-need subject at a high-need school.

The governor said 75% of state school districts face a shortage of fully trained teachers, especially in high school math and science and at all grade levels for students with disabilities. High-need schools have three times as many under-prepared teachers, he said.

In a 2017 survey, two thirds of principals serving schools with high proportions of students of color and students from low-income families reported that they had to leave teaching positions vacant or hire teachers on substandard credentials, according to research from the Palo Alto-based Learning Policy Institute.

Statewide, the number of teachers working on an “emergency-style” permit increased more than five-fold from 2013 to 2017, according to research from the institute. Between 2002 and 2013, enrollment in teacher-education programs declined about 70%, and it’s barely budged upward since.

Newsom’s proposed budget includes more than $400 million toward teacher training programs, including those aimed at bringing in more minority teachers.

“A teacher that looks like you,” Newsom said. “That’s incredibly important.”

“We have got to focus on recruitment,” he said, “and the special subject matters where we are seeing deep systemic underrepresentation.”

Newsom said his advisors looked at comparatively high achievement levels in Massachusetts and improving performance in states such as New Jersey — and the necessity to bolster the teaching force became obvious.

“It’s not all that damn complicated,” he said. “It seems self evident that we should focus and concentrate our efforts in those areas.”

He did not bring up strategies that make it easier to fire bad teachers or rate teachers to improve academic results, which have been key elements of education policy in many states and at the federal level.

“The governor, through his budget, is definitely saying that you can’t get accountability just by measuring and punishing,” said state Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond, a Newsom appointee. “You have to get accountability and productivity by investing in people’s capacity to do the job.”

UC Berkeley sociologist and education professor Bruce Fuller commended the creation of a new office for early childhood, calling it a “clear nod toward good, more-efficient government. These funding streams are now scattered among many agencies, like tributaries splitting off during a downpour.”

The group Education Trust-West lauded the addition of 10,000 additional slots in the state’s funding for preschool.

In his remarks, Newsom noted the connection between poverty and student performance and listed measures to address it. These include $300 million in grants for school districts to provide “wrap-around” services, such as healthcare. More broadly, Newsom made connections between the cumulative needs of students and families and government services targeting healthcare, criminal justice and homelessness.

Advocates, including Children’s Defense Fund-California, praised the approach, but not necessarily the execution or total financial commitment.

“We are pleased with the governor’s continued investment in community schools, Medi-Cal and transforming the juvenile justice system,” the organization said in a statement. “With that said, poverty is a significant underlying cause of the poor outcomes and challenges facing California’s children, particularly children of color, and this budget proposal does not fully the address the economic inequities across the state.”

While expressing appreciation for the gains, L.A. schools Supt. Austin Beutner called the state’s school system “woefully underfunded.”

“This budget proposal does not go far enough in funding supports for our most vulnerable students, including students whose families are experiencing homelessness and students with special needs,” Beutner said in a statement.

Newsom said he had to balance legitimate needs with budget limitations. He pegged the overall increase in funding for kindergarten through community college at about 3%.

Newsom also said he would set aside new funding to help school systems pay down pension debts, which have the potential to cripple funding for student programs over the next decade or so.

The University of California and Cal State systems would see a 5% rise — and a cumulative increase of 12% over two years. His higher education proposal also included expanded education opportunities in prisons, more grants for low-income students and resources for immigrant students.

Los Angeles Unified is not as hard-hit as many other districts — especially in rural areas and the Bay Area — for teachers. But it is stretched to fill all classrooms with a fully credentialed instructor. In November, about 85% of its special-education classrooms had a fully qualified teacher, although another 10% were in training to earn their credential.

The district already is benefiting from previous state grants that offset the cost of earning a teaching credential and provide mentoring from a veteran teacher. Such support can be important in retaining teachers. The district also has a program to help teacher aides become fully credentialed instructors, which the new state money also would support.

“We have many communities that are building these programs that recruit people in, and then put them under the wing of a great teacher for a year while they’re getting their credential from a university,” Darling-Hammond said. “Their retention rates are very high. Their effectiveness is high. They become part of the long-term solution, rather than part of the revolving door of people in and out.”

DAVENPORT, Iowa — 

On a recent swing through Iowa, Andrew Yang was moving through his stump speech, a string of stories and statistics that can sound like an economics seminar. There was talk of flawed indicators and his signature plan to give a monthly check to every American. He warned about a dark and near future where the nation’s highways are filled with trucks driven by robots. One crossed the U.S. last month with a trailer full of butter.

“Google it,” he said.

But with the first votes of the Democratic primary due to be cast within weeks, a woman inside a jammed coffee shop had a more immediate concern for the 44-year-old entrepreneur, who has become one of the surprise survivors of the long contest: What if we go to caucus for you on Feb. 3, she asked, and you don’t have enough support to win delegates? Why should we waste our votes?

After months of running on unconventional campaign strategies, cool branding and novel ideas, Yang has arrived at a pivotal, new point in the 2020 campaign — one governed by the conventional rules of election and where the idea that matters most is your strategy for winning. The candidate powered by the online buzz is now trying to make it on the real, and often uncool, campaign trail through Iowa and New Hampshire.

While other second-tier candidates in the race are planning to use money and advertising to make an end-run around those early voting states, Yang says he’s largely sticking to the traditional path.

His campaign staff has grown from about 30 people last summer to over 300, most in early voting states, and he’s hired some well known political hands, including the ad team from Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign. He’s paid for it all with strong online fundraising, collecting more than $16 million in the final quarter of last year. That’s more than all but the top four candidates in the race, including two senators and a former vice president.

And the candidate who loves to talk about number crunching, data and his plan to use a Power Point during his State of the Union address, assured the woman in Davenport that she didn’t need to worry. “We have done the math,” he said, a nod to his campaign slogan, Make America Think Harder, abbreviated on hats and pins as just “MATH. “

But major challenges remain for a campaign that has compared itself to a start-up and that saw most of its early success online, with supporters who were mostly young and male. Yang did not meet Democratic National Committee polling requirements to participate in next Tuesday’s debate, the first time he’s failed to make the stage this election cycle. A Des Moines Register/CNN poll released Friday showed him with 5% support in Iowa, well behind the front- runners: former Vice President Joe Biden, Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Yang and his supporters complain that his campaign hasn’t received as much media coverage as it deserves, a grievance aired enough to make #mediablackout trend on Twitter. This week, a cable news station included him in a graphic showing recent fundraising totals — but mistakenly used a photo of Geoff Yang, founder of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, rather than the candidate.

Andrew Yang said he raised enough money last quarter to reach voters in the final weeks before voting starts and continues to see strong fundraising numbers. He’s also getting some help from celebrity endorsements, including comedian Dave Chappelle, who will perform at a fundraiser in South Carolina, and Donald Glover, an actor and musician who performs music as Childish Gambino and recently joined Yang’s campaign as a creative consultant.

“Americans are very smart and they recognize the truth when they hear it … and their contributions have given us a chance to make this case to the American people out there, all through the primary season,” Yang said after a stop in Tipton, Iowa, a rural community in a county that supported Donald Trump for president in 2016.

Yang said his goal in Iowa is to surprise people by being “on the leaderboard,” though he wouldn’t say what place he needs to finish in. He said there are “a lot of natural strengths” for his campaign in New Hampshire, where there are a large number of libertarians, along with former Trump voters and progressives, whom he considers his voters. A strong showing there, Yang believes, will help propel him through the other early voting states, Nevada and South Carolina, and into the Super Tuesday contests on March 3.

“We’ll be here the whole spring,” he said.

Yang’s core message has focused on the changing economy and millions of jobs lost to automation and artificial intelligence, particularly in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, where voters were swayed by Trump’s promises to bring back American jobs. He says companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook that make money off automation and data should be taxed more to pay for his so-called freedom dividend, the $1,000 monthly payment Yang would give to Americans 18 and older.

Iowa Democratic strategist Jeff Link said he’s been impressed with the way Yang has been able to share his point of view on the changing economy, make it real for voters and talk about it in an approachable way. But Link said there are many undecided Iowa voters who will be making up their minds in the coming weeks, and while having millions in a campaign fund is helpful, not qualifying for the debate stage is “a big deal.”

“The No. 1 thing for voters is who is the candidate most likely to beat Trump,” Link said. “It’s hard to argue you’re the best candidate if you can’t make the debate.”

Jerry Stoefen, who was a union plumber for 42 years and farms outside Tipton, attended Yang’s event there and said he was glad to see someone talking about the loss of manufacturing jobs. The 62-year-old said he has narrowed his choices to Yang, Sanders and Buttigieg.

Allison Ambrose, 57, an accounting professor from Davenport, called Yang a “breath of fresh air” but is also considering Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

Barb Larson, 78, saw Yang speak at a bowling alley in Clinton, Iowa, where the candidate took a few turns bowling after addressing the crowd. Larson, who also is considering Warren, Sanders and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, left the event pleasantly surprised. She said she’ll rely on her “gut feeling” come caucus day.

“I really, really like what he had to say about what he will do for us,” Larson said. “He’s made me more confused.”

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — 

The reins of political power in the U.S. for the next decade could be determined in this year’s elections — not necessarily by who wins the presidency, but by thousands of lower-profile contests for state legislative seats across the country.

In many states, the winners of those legislative races will have a role in drawing new districts for Congress or state legislatures based on the 2020 census. If a political party can win control of those state legislative chambers now, it can draw voting districts to boost its chances in future elections.

“The 2020 election is the premier election when it comes to redistricting, because it is the election that will set the players in place who will do redistricting come 2021,” said Wendy Underhill, director of elections and redistricting for the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Voters will be electing more than 5,000 state lawmakers in 35 states who will play a significant role in crafting or passing new maps for Congress or state House and Senate districts. Voters also will be electing governors in eight states who could enact or veto those maps.

The Constitution requires a census once every 10 years. That population count then is used to redraw districts for the U.S. House of Representatives and state legislative chambers. States that grow rapidly can gain congressional seats while those that fail to keep pace can lose seats. Migration among cities, suburbs and rural areas also can lead to changes in district lines to try to equalize the number of residents in each voting jurisdiction.

Seven states have only one congressional district because of their small populations. Of the remaining 43 states, eight use redistricting commissions for Congress that leave little or no role for the state legislature. Eleven of the 50 states rely on independent commissions for redistricting their state House and Senate seats. The rest involve lawmakers in the process, and most also give governors a say.

Republicans generally outmaneuvered Democrats during the last round of redistricting by converting big wins in the 2010 state elections into favorable maps for the future. Democrats successfully challenged some of those maps in court, forcing them to be redrawn, but others have remained in place for the full decade.

This time, Democrats are pouring more money into the redistricting fight. The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee has boosted its fundraising target from about $10 million during the 2009-10 election cycle to $50 million in the 2019-20 elections. Various Democratic-aligned groups are kicking in tens of millions more, including the National Democratic Redistricting Committee led by former Obama administration Atty. Gen. Eric Holder.

“We’ve got the next 10 years of politics at stake in these elections,” said Patrick Rodenbush, communications director for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.

The Republican State Leadership Committee, which calls its redistricting campaign “Right Lines 2020,” hasn’t disclosed a fundraising goal for the year. But it had a target of as much as $50 million for state legislative and down-ballot statewide races during the 2017-18 election cycle.

“This is the long-term investment,” Republican State Leadership Committee President Austin Chambers said. “This is about making sure that we have a congressional majority and a conservative majority across the country at the state and local level for the next decade.”

The big four

Four of the biggest redistricting prizes in the 2020 legislative elections are Texas, Florida, North Carolina and Georgia. Those states combined account for 90 U.S. House seats, one-fifth of the nationwide total, and Republicans currently hold more than 60% of them. Texas, Florida and North Carolina all are projected to gain congressional seats because of their population growth, which would give the party in power an opportunity to shape new districts to their liking.

All four states have complete Republican control in their state legislatures, giving them an edge in redistricting, although Florida’s constitution says districts can’t be drawn to favor a political party. Texas, Florida and Georgia also have Republican governors who were elected to four-year terms in 2018.

Texas has 36 U.S. House seats, second only to California, and the potential to gain as many as three more because of its rapid growth.

“The reality is Texas is the crown jewel of redistricting,” said Vicky Hausman, co-founder of Forward Majority, a Democratic organization that is targeting key Republican-led legislatures in the 2020 elections.

If Democrats could flip control of at least one legislative chamber in GOP-led states, they could gain leverage for redistricting compromises that could increase their odds of winning future elections and building their majority in Congress.

“A lot of where we’re trying to win would be disruption, like Texas, that has to force Democrats and Republicans to work together for maps,” said Matt Harringer, press secretary for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.

In North Carolina, all congressional and some state legislative candidates will be running under newly redrawn districts this year after state courts stopped the use of prior maps drawn by the Republican-led Legislature. Democrats had argued that the old districts were an example of extreme partisan gerrymandering. Republicans hold 10 of North Carolina’s 13 seats in the U.S. House, even though statewide elections between Republicans and Democrats are usually close.

Democrats would need to gain five state Senate seats and six state House seats to flip control of the chambers. North Carolina’s governor, a Democrat who is up for reelection in 2020, is irrelevant in redistricting because the office has no power to sign or veto the plans passed by the Legislature.

North Carolina “is going to be one of the top spends for our committee in 2020, and we’re going to do everything in our power to maintain the state House and the state Senate,” said Chambers, of the Republican state committee.

Margins matter

Ohio has long been a top redistricting target for the political parties. After the 2010 census, Republicans controlled the House, Senate, governor’s office and other key executive offices that gave them firm control over redistricting. Republicans still control Ohio government.

But a pair of constitutional amendments approved by voters since the last census have changed the redistricting process to inject greater bipartisanship. After the 2020 census, a congressional redistricting plan must receive a 60% vote in both the House and Senate — including support from at least half the minority party members in each chamber — to last for the full decade. A similar bipartisan threshold is required from the commission of elected officials that handles state legislative redistricting.

Winning control of the Ohio House or Senate would be difficult for Democrats, yet each seat they can gain will increase the number of Democratic votes needed for the Republican majorities to enact new districts,.

Slim margins also could make a big difference in the historically Republican state of Kansas.

Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, will be able to veto redistricting plans passed by the Republican-led Legislature. The question is whether Republicans will have the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto and be able to stick together if they do. In the Senate, Republicans currently hold 29 of the 40 seats — two more than the override threshold. In the House, Republicans hold 84 of the 125 seats — exactly what’s needed for an override.

Split power

In some states with politically divided governments, Democrats will be making a play in the 2020 elections to win full control of redistricting while Republicans will be seeking to hold on to a seat at the table.

Minnesota currently is the only state where Democrats control one legislative chamber and Republicans the other. But the 75-59 Democratic majority in the House is more solid than the 35-32 Republican majority in the Senate. If Democrats gain two Senate seats, they would hold the trifecta of redistricting power, because they already control the governor’s office.

In New Hampshire, the redistricting battle centers around the 2020 gubernatorial election. Democrats currently control the state House and Senate while the governor’s office is held by Republican Chris Sununu, who is running for reelection. In August, Sununu vetoed a bipartisan measure that would have created an independent commission to redraw the state’s legislative districts. Sununu said there was no need for it because the current process — which allows the governor to veto redistricting plans passed by the legislature — is fair.

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin also are redistricting targets for both Democrats and Republicans. Both states have Democratic governors who aren’t up for reelection in 2020 and Republican legislative majorities that remain short of the threshold needed to override vetoes. Unless one party wins big in the 2020 legislative elections, compromise may be necessary during the next round of congressional redistricting.

Redistricting bystanders

The 2020 elections won’t matter at all in some states — at least not when it comes to redistricting.

That’s the case in the nation’s most populous state of California, which will use a 14-member citizens commission to draw its congressional and state legislative districts after the 2020 census. Not only are lawmakers excluded from the commission, but so are other federal and state employees, political party officials, campaign staff members, lobbyists and big political donors. The only role for state legislative leaders is in whittling down the list of applicants before the members — five Republicans, five Democrats and four independents — are randomly selected.

Michigan had been expected to be a big redistricting battleground in the 2020 legislative elections. But a ballot measure approved in 2018 by voters created an independent commission to handle the task that had previously been the domain of the legislature and governor. Michigan’s process is now similar to California’s.

Other states with independent redistricting commissions include Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Jersey and Washington.

Missouri and Pennsylvania use independent commissions only for state legislative districts, not congressional ones, so the 2020 elections still can have an impact on redistricting in those states. Though Republicans aren’t likely to lose their grip on Missouri’s legislature, Democrats are mounting a challenging to the incumbent GOP governor this year.

With his bright red shoes and relentless running, Derrick Henry grabbed the spotlight and wouldn’t let go.

When he was done leading Tennessee into the AFC championship game Saturday night, he did a lengthy victory lap around the Baltimore Ravens’ home, slapping hands and taking selfies with Titans fans.

It has been quite a two-week ride.

“It’s not just me,” Henry said after rushing for 195 yards and throwing a three-yard touchdown pass in a 28-12 upset of the NFL’s top team Saturday night. “It’s a team effort. We’re all playing collectively as an offense, as a whole. We’re just locked in. We believe in each other. We communicate. It’s working out there.“

The Titans fear no one, and why should they with Henry rushing — and even throwing — the ball and a big-play defense making clutch stops and turnovers?

One week after dominating defending Super Bowl champion New England, the Titans (11-7) eliminated Baltimore (14-3). The Ravens had won their last 12 games, with quarterback Lamar Jackson setting records and looking unstoppable.

On Saturday night, it was Henry who was unstoppable, despite Baltimore stacking eight men up front on almost two-thirds of his runs. At times, Henry used power to create space. At others, the holes the line provided were huge.

“Watch us work,” said Henry, the NFL’s leading rusher this season. “We don’t do too much talking. We just go work and believe in each other. That’s our mentality. We’re going to come in here and work. Focus on finishing.”

Tennessee’s defense had two interceptions of Jackson, who also lost a fumble, and the Titans twice stopped Baltimore on fourth and one.

Henry’s jump-pass to wide receiver Corey Davis displayed yet another of his skills. He has completed three throws in four attempts in his career.

But it’s the way he plows over and through opponents that makes Henry — and the Titans — dangerous. Next week, they will go after their second Super Bowl trip and first since the 2000 season, either at Kansas City or Houston. The last sixth seed to get to the big game was Green Bay in the 2010 season; the Packers won it all.

Tennessee scored all of its points off takeaways or fourth-down stops.

Ryan Tannehill’s throws to Jonnu Smith and Kalif Raymond, who missed the last two games in the concussion protocol, gave Tennessee a 14-point edge.

The Titans’ first score came after tight end Mark Andrews, the Ravens’ top receiver this season, mistimed his leap and had Jackson’s pass deflect into the air. Safety Kevin Byard was there to pick it off.

Byard scooted 31 yards down the left side, and with a 15-yard personal foul penalty on Jackson added, Tennessee was at the Baltimore 35-yard line. The hushed crowd then saw five straight Titans runs to the four-yard line before Earl Thomas came free untouched for an eight-yard sack.

Tennessee simply shrugged, and Smith made a juggling catch in the left corner of the end zone. Replay determined he landed barely in bounds for a 7-0 lead.

A fourth-down stop with less than a yard to go — the first time in nine tries all season the Ravens failed on fourth and one — set up Tennessee’s next touchdown. Tannehill made it 14-0 with his gorgeous long pass that floated over Raymond’s shoulder into his arms behind All-Pro defensive back Marcus Peters, acquired from the Rams during the season. The folks in the stands dressed in purple, who hadn’t seen their team in such a deep hole since the end of September, had gone silent.

More Henry

Henry’s touchdown pass was the first by a running back in the playoffs since 1987, when Allen Rice of Minnesota managed it.

Henry is the first player with two games of 175 rushing yards or more in the same postseason. He has set the postseason single-game rushing record for the Titans in consecutive weeks.

He also has the most yards rushing through his first four postseason games. He came in with 366 and now is at 561, beating Hall of Famer Terrell Davis and Arian Foster, who were tied with 515 through their first four.

Lamar’s lament

Jackson’s superb season ended with a major thud. He finished with gaudy numbers — 31 for 59 for 365 yards, 20 carries for 143 yards — and a 15-yard touchdown pass to tight end Hayden Hurst. But the Ravens flopped ignominiously.

Jackson was better than in his previous playoff game, a wild-card loss to the Chargers last year. At halftime in that one, Jackson was two for eight for 17 yards and an interception for a 0.0 quarterback rating. He came on in helping Baltimore make that one close in the second half.