Minnesota economist Christopher Phelan nominated to be top Trump policy adviser

Last summer, when Donald Trump began pressuring GOP-controlled states to redraw their congressional maps mid-decade, Republicans had a lofty goal: pick up a dozen or more seats in an effort to fend off a coming blue wave and retain the House in the midterms. Trump scored early wins in Texas, Missouri, and North Carolina. But […]

Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a referendum to redraw the state’s congressional map in a way that would give Democrats a 10-1 advantage, marking the latest front in a nationwide push by both parties to tilt the House battlefield in their favor. The Associated Press called the race in favor of the referendum at 8:49 […]

Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a Democratic redistricting plan that could allow the party to pick up as many as four new seats in the midterm elections, NBC News projects.

Virginia voters have approved a Democrat-backed redistricting plan, Decision Desk HQ projects, greenlighting a new congressional map that could net the party as many as four seats ahead of the midterm elections.  Voters in the Old Dominion cast their ballots in a Tuesday referendum, in which Democratic lawmakers asked them to approve a state constitutional...