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Virginia voters on Tuesday approved Democrats’ effort to gerrymander the state, giving the party an edge in its bid to reclaim the House in November. The new map would give Democrats the chance to flip
redistricting battle that [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) launched before this year’s midterms. The vote came just two days after the governor, [Ron DeSantis](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ron-desantis), unveiled his proposal and the same
Trump called on Republicans in Texas last year to redraw their maps to create more Republican-leaning districts. That kicked off a flurry of tit-for-tat redistricting efforts by Democratic- and Republican-controlled state
Virginia answered changes in Missouri and Ohio with a new map that pulled four districts into expected Democratic gains. Lawmakers in [Florida](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida) postponed earlier consideration of a mid-decade redistricting while waiting
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Trump going after California’s elections “utterly predictable”.  Voters cast their ballots in Fountain Valley, California. Photograph: MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Images “He claimed the recent Virginia redistricting election
redistricting his state’s congressional maps, a move he hopes will net his party up to four additional House seats in November’s midterm elections. The long-awaited reveal, which will be debated during
redistricting election results: Key takeaways from Democrats’ win Virginia voters have narrowly approved a referendum to redraw the state’s congressional map, with about 51.5 percent voting yes and 48.6 percent voting
efforts in state redistricting. “The radio host should not have used that language and I do not — and did not — condone it,” she said. “It was obvious to anyone listening that I was agreeing Hakeem
Trump last year pushed Texas Republicans to rip up their electoral map and draw new district lines targeting five Democratic US House incumbents. After Texas did so, California Democrats reconfigured their state’s districts, targeting
redistricting maps in an effort to gain greater partisan advantage and in the process to eliminate districts where Black voters had a fair chance of electing their candidate of choice. Leading the pack was Alabama
Trump on Wednesday decried the Virginia vote as “rigged”, without providing any evidence to back up the claim. Meanwhile, a case pending before the US Supreme Court could beckon in another slate of redistricting
Trump has urged Tennessee and other GOP-led states to redraw their maps before this fall's midterm elections, as part of his mid-decade redistricting push. Earlier Thursday, Tennessee Gov. Lee [signed a bill
Virginia and Texas have since followed suit. The campaign was kicked into overdrive when the US Supreme Court ruled last week that a [provision](/news/2026/4/30/has-the-us-supreme-court-weakened-the-voting-rights-act-and-how) of the landmark 1973 Voting Rights Act, which prevented diluting
effort to subvert democracy, who paid the price when she lost her House seat in Wyoming in 2022. Similarly, it became a received wisdom that the Jeffrey Epstein files would be Trump’s undoing, that
Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) urging Republican-controlled states to redraw their lines and was supercharged by a recent supreme court ruling severely weakening the Voting Rights Act that opened up even more winnable seats
effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).** The impasse has been going on since mid-February as Democrats have demanded policy changes in the wake of fatal shootings of two protesters by federal
Virginia will not sit on the sidelines while it happens." ### An Indiana senator said no to redistricting, and others followed *By* [*Benjamin Thorp*](https://www.wfyi.org/people/benjamin-thorp)*, WFYI* It seemed likely last fall that Indiana lawmakers
Trump [started pressuring](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/26/us-politics-redistricting-trump-maps?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct) Republican states to gerrymander their congressional maps to help the party hold onto its slim House majority. Several states have [redrawn those maps](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/02/us-redistrcting-congressional-map?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct) since last year