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.
Losing the moral high ground will make your victory Pyrrhic.
Losing period makes your fight a wasted effort.
Standing by while republicans have wantonly suppressed the vote, deleted voter rolls, and likely literally have stolen elections is what is causing all the fucking issues right now. Dems need to fight fire with fire, then if they win they can ban gerrymandering nationally.
You’re just telling me that your king will be better than their king.
Oh look, it’s that old chestnut “whataboutism”…
Swing and a miss
Democrats don’t have a king, bucko.
And yet here are the Democrats eroding the very concept of democracy by literally rigging the system to maximize votes for Democrats. How far down that road are you willing your gang to go?
Dems wanted to pass a national gerrymandering ban. trump, in his infinite wisdom, told Texas and other red states he wanted more seats and they, in an unprecedented move, redistricted their states mid-decade to placate a despot.
Democrats are countering the gerrymandering republicans started, and you are solely blaming the Democrats for wiping out an illbegotten gain by republicans.
Stop being so pathetic, man. It’s really sad to see someone bend over this far backwards for fucking Nazis.
You’d made a reasonable argument right up until the end. Sad you had to attack me to make yourself feel better.
Asking the voters to approve a voting system is now considered eroding democracy?
Do you not understand the words you’re using? Or are you just a “conservative” who is here to “just ask questions” because if you acted like this in the real world, someone would put you in a hospital while the rest of us denied seeing anything?
I choose to believe you’re not that stupid.
Like, you realize people can vote for a thing that would itself be undemocratic… Right?
This is why no one likes you.
You can’t legislate from the moral high ground, dumbass.
You can only legislate if you WIN.
Tell that to the dead who kept their moral high grounds and were killed by fascists.