(The Center Square) -Accusations of redrawing the district of a North Carolina Democratic congressman as a favor for endorsement from America’s Republican president are being denied by the Republican state Senate president pro tempore. We have drawn four congressional maps in the last six years in redistricting fights with Democrats because of their sue-until-blue strategy. That said, I’ve never spoken to President Trump about this or an endorsement. Berger won election to the state Senate in 2000, became leader of his party in the chamber in 2004, and since the historic 2010 cycle has steadily become the nation’s longest actively serving state Senate leader. He further wrote if Trump “wants those maps redrawn, that should come with no strings attached – but I guess Phil Berger doesn’t think so.”