Virginia adopts new Dem-drafted House districts | Political News

President Donald Trump’s efforts to persuade Virginia voters to reject a referendum aimed at redrawing district boundaries in Democrats’ favor fell short on Tuesday, priming the occasion to additional strengthen its majority in the House.

The Associated Press and other main shops called the vote shortly before 9 p.m. after a surge in “yes” votes from the state’s blue-leaning counties confirmed the measure would move.

The result’s another impediment for House Republicans and for Trump, who on Monday described the vote during a tele-rally as a “blatant partisan power grab that nobody’s really ever seen anything like it.” He said in a post on Truth Social earlier Tuesday, “VIRGINIA, VOTE ‘NO’TO SAVE YOUR COUNTRY.”

In the wake of his unprecedented mid-decade push for Republican states to gerrymander voting districts, Trump has bristled at Democratic-led states that have countered them with related efforts.

The vote centered on a constitutional modification that will quickly bypass Virginia’s redistricting commission to redraw voting boundaries and give Democrats the benefit in all but one of its 11 congressional districts. It will seemingly elevate Democrats’ 6-5 majority in the House to a 10-1 majority.

By Monday, more than 1.3 million voters had already solid their ballots utilizing early voting, which started on March 6.

“This is really a national fight,” Eric Holder, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, told CBS News on Sunday. “It’s not a fight only about Virginia. And when the president told Governor [Greg] Abbott in Texas, ‘I need five additional seats in the House of Representatives,’ there had to be a response to that.”

“The people have the ability to make this decision in Virginia, as they did in California, as opposed to it being imposed upon them in Texas and in Missouri and in North Carolina, which proved to be wildly unpopular,” Holder added. “But Republican politicians ignored the will of the people in those states.”

The measure will enable the momentary redistricting modifications only until 2030, when normal procedures would resume.

State Republicans filed a number of lawsuits making an attempt to stop the redistricting vote altogether, but the Virginia Supreme Court twice ruled that the vote might proceed while litigation continues.

Trump misplaced Virginia to Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election by more than 5 factors.

Former President Barack Obama had urged state residents in a video message to go to the polls, arguing that passing the measure would imply a stronger Democratic benefit in the crucial midterm elections.

Though Trump has appeared optimistic about his occasion’s probabilities in November’s midterms, he has continued to pursue long-disproven conspiracy theories that mass fraud is influencing elections in Democrats’ favor across America.

Earlier this yr, Trump told House Republicans: “You obtained to win the midterms, because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just going to be — I imply, they’ll discover a cause to impeach me,” according to NBC News.