Virginia voters approve high-stakes redistricting referendum

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 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...

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