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Republicans Started a Nationwide Fight Over Redistricting. Did They Just Lose?
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Republicans Started a Nationwide Fight Over Redistricting. Did They Just Lose?

Slate Magazine·Jim Newell·about 1 month ago
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Politics In Virginia, Democrats struck yet another blow against Trump’s plan to rig the midterms. Brett Phelps/Mirror Indy via Getty Images Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In 2020, Virginia voters amended the state constitution to put redistricting in the hands of a bipartisan commission to reduce partisan gerrymandering. Less than six years later, on Tuesday night, Virginia voters said to hell with it all and approved a ferocious Democratic gerrymander of their state. The new map, if it survives some last legal checkpoints, is expected to give Democrats 10 of the state’s 11 congressional seats this fall, a four-seat increase from the current map. The referendum result neuters whatever advantage Republicans had built—or even builds out a small one for Democrats—in the midcycle redistricting war that Donald Trump kicked off last summer by insisting Texas Republicans redraw their maps.…

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