Trump Melts Down at ‘Rigged’ Election After His Plot Backfires
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President Donald Trump unleashed an unsubstantiated rant about the election in Virginia being rigged after voters in the state delivered a sharp rebuke to him and Republicans.
It was the latest pushback by Democrats across the country to Republican gerrymandering ahead of the midterms after Trump launched the nationwide scramble by pressuring Texas to redraw its congressional maps to help the GOP last summer.
On Tuesday, Voters in Virginia backed the referendum to redraw districts that will allow Democrats to pick up as many as four new seats in the state come November.
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