Virginia voters approve new congressional maps in blow to Trump
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 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/02/us-redistrcting-congressional-map">redraw that state’s congressional maps in a bid to oust as many as five Democratic House lawmakers in the November midterm elections.
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