Governor called referendum after president urged GOP-led states to redraw maps to protect House majority
Voters in Virginia on Tuesday approved new congressional maps intended to boost Democrats’ chances of retaking the House of Representatives, in the latest blow to Donald Trump’s effort to use mid-decade redistricting to preserve his control of Congress.
The tit-for-tat redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas’s Republican-controlled legislature to redraw that state’s congressional maps in a bid to oust as many as five Democratic House lawmakers in the November midterm elections.
California voters retaliated by approving new maps that could flip five Republican-held seats, and in Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, the newly elected Democratic governor, backed an effort to redraw her state’s maps following her January inauguration. Tuesday’s referendum could help Democrats win four additional House seats in November’s midterm elections.
Dems would not be redistricting if the MAGAs hasn’t tried it first, but that shows an improvement. In the past, Dems wouldn’t have tried redistricting, even if MAGA had succeeded in doing it, because it wouldn’t have been “fair.”
This time, they saw MAGA trying to grab an advantage, so the Dems did it too, except they did it right, so it passed by the courts, while the MAGA attempts didn’t.
We are finally seeing the Dems fighting back, and fighting back smart, which is something MAGA will NEVER be able to compete with. We need the Dems to play a lot more of that Hard Ball.
It feels like a pebble thrown against a mountain
I don’t see why you think this. congress is the one the constitution depends on to impeach presidents who violate the constitution.
Sometimes gerrymandering has the opposite effect. And of all the shit Republicans have done and gotten away with seems like a very small step. Still need to win and elect those who will hold Republicans accountable.
That is a lesson the Republicans in Texas are about to learn. More than a couple Texas seats that would have been safe red are vulnerable to a moderate-sized Blue Wave…especially if that wave includes rebounding and/or gains among Latinos.
Here is the thing nobody is considering though. Republicans right now are extremely unpopular so any district this coming election could be heavily skewed until the American populace does what it’s notorious for a few years later and that is forget.
I don’t think any data we get from this coming election will be reliable
republicans just need to go period. conservatives need to go back to what they were before nixon and be consistent regardless of if they are in charge or not. if the party is just we for us and against our enemies its just going to be garbage nutters.