Virginia Democrats have been pushing to redraw the state's congressional districts in recent weeks.

They say it's in response to the Trump administration's efforts to redraw districts in several states, to ensure that Republicans continue to hold the majority in Congress.

Some political analysts describe what’s taking place nationwide and in the Commonwealth as "gerrymandering," saying it’s not good for America, but with both parties doing it, Virginia Democrats are saying it’s fair game.

Now with the House of Delegates solidly in their hands and the governor's office flipped, their efforts to redistrict may not be much of a fight at all.

Speaking with FOX 5's Jim Lokay on the Final 5, longtime political analyst Chuck Todd said Speaker of the House Don Scott believes Democrats could move quickly to redraw political boundaries in a special session immediately following the inauguration.

"The first major issue a new governor could face isn’t one they campaigned on — it’s redistricting," Todd said.

He says the move could set the tone for the Spanberger administration, which will already face challenges from day one in a typically purple state that has decidedly turned from the grasp of the Trump administration.

>>1454831
>It was a big night for Democrats in Virginia.
Youngkin making right wing culture wars the centerpiece of his governorship is what really caused this in VA. I'm glad no one has to put up with his smug chud face anytime soon.

This is how it begins, so we know how it ends for the likes of >>1454814: Total MAGA Death.
>delusion
Reality proves opinions wrong.
>NYC
>New Jersey
>California
>Virginia
The pushback starts here.

but look at all that shiny oil in Venezuela! Pay no attention to the man behind the Epstein list.

>>1454831
See here's where the GOP is in a major pickle; any other party, including the GOP pre-Trump, seeing this would start changing course to avoid a midterm massacre, at least on a minor level. In this case likely just admit defeat on the shut down, probably start telling their candidates to start focusing on policy instead of culture wars and social media campaigns. Obviously nothing groundbreaking, but acknowledge that the path they're currently going down is losing them the next election.

But the Trump GOP, in 2025, literally cannot learn from its mistakes. They cannot admit they were ever wrong, because if they did Trump gets mad and starts throwing a shitfit about people not doing exactly what he wants. So they're gonna keep on this doomed path with some attempts to gerrymander their way out of the incoming midterm massacre, even though this election should've been setting off red alarms.

>>1454853
His people are already out today saying Republicans lost because they didn't suck Trump's dick hard enough.
Expect Trump to make 2026 entirely about himself, as he has done with every election since 2016, and for Republicans to suffer deeply as a result.

>>1454856
They tried to claim Jack "I approve of everything Trump has done" Ciattarelli was a fucking never-Trumper. Only Vivek actually pointed out they need to start dealing with affordability or they'll literally fall on their own sword from 2024, but they'll ignore him because he's brown.

>>1454856
Which is funny because every Trump endorsed candidate lost.

>>1454857
>they need to start dealing with affordability
Meanwhile, Trump is building his Great Works that cost hundreds of millions of dollars amidst the longest government shutdown in history while he also tried to withhold emergency funds for SNAP.
He might as well be standing on the highest tower screaming "LET THEM EAT CAKE!"
Its obvious to most voters that Republicans are not interested in affordability.

>>1454857
After any particularly bad night for Republicans, there's always a few voices on the right who say "Hey maybe it's our fault we lost and we should try to improve as a party".
Those voices are always inevitably drowned out by the right wing echo chamber screaming "WE NEED TO DOUBLE DOWN AND KEEP DOING EXACTLY WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING! WE ONLY LOST BECAUSE AMERICA IS STUPID!"
That become the marching orders for the party, and eventually those few voices of reason either go quiet or reverse course and jump on the bandwagon.
2008, 2012, 2018, 2020, 2025
It always happens

>>1454865
The irony is, they're falling into the same fucking pitfall that lost Dems 2024. Except it's even worse, because they outright ran on affordability and wound up tanking the economy far worse than Biden did cleaning up after COVID, which is leaving a ton of their voters feeling like they got fucking scammed. And unlike the Dems, who were able to use "Look at all the job and inflation issues of Trump's admin" to recover in this election, Repubs can't even acknowledge there's a fucking problem. Trump's ego refuses to let him admit "things didn't work out as intended", or even "our plans for the future will pay off for everyone". Instead, literally today, after his retarded 60 minutes interview where he just insisted prices were down, after Repubs got fucking swept across the board with affordability being the number 1 issue, he's STILL going on Truth Social and insisting prices are already down! And Republicans can't even dispute him without him getting pissed and threatening them! They are literally living in another fucking dimension where all of his policies are a success, while voters live in the real world where Trump is increasing their grocery bills and local businesses are either going broke or doubling prices.

They had some control over him in 2016. But now he's untethered with no one to keep his ego in check, surrounded by yes men who affirm how good the emperor's clothes look. And it's fucking costing them because at the end of the day, Trump's policies are retarded and the majority of people have only seen their lives get worse under him.

>>1454877
The economy is still trying to recover from Biden.
Eggs are under $2 a dozen here.
Pumping fed funds into the market doesn't fix affordability, FYI

>>1454842
Solid blue strongholds and a purple state are some massive political movement?

>>1454883
Buddy you just got swept and the number one issue was how prices were fucked and jobs are non-existent. Your president is literally claiming neither issue even exists, gilding the white house as people stand in breadlines for food. Take the L.

>>1454885
>massive political movement?
What's happened is causing yuge political bowel movements in red states due to they being terrified.

>>1454885
You certainly thought so yesterday when you were saying Republicans were going to win every one of those elections

>>1454888
Not really. Trump lost both those states. VA was a bigger blowout than usual, but half of DC lives there so it is what it is.

>>1454896
Yeah, thats kinda what you do during elections.
"dont bother its a blue state" doesn't really get souls to the polls.

>>1454885
Democrats also won seats in Mississippi's House and broke the Republican supermajority for the first time in 13 years

>>1454908
>due to court ordered districts being created

>>1454909
Shouldn't have thrown the first punch in Texas dipshit.

>>1454911
Has nothing to do with Texas. Court ordered that miss creat majority-minority districts. Dems won these new safe-blue districts.

>>1454909
>We had to be ordered by a court to stop drawing districts that guarantee we win, and we immediately lost
Not really the argument you think it is

>>1454911
>got played by Newsom.
Sad.

Texas has been trying to redistrict since 2020. It just happened now because its been stuck in court for five years. Hilariously, it has nothing to do with Trump or whatever. The other R states redistricting are doing it in response to Prop 50 not some grand scheme. Newsom made this whole story up, and as a result is going to make it almost impossible for Dems to win the house.

Y'all need to get rid of that guy.

>>1454914
That's not the argument or what the court ordered. Ironically, its the court who ordered that the state draw districts that guarantee democrats win.

>>1454915
If you put half as much of the effort you put into rewriting history into actually coming up with an agenda that America can agree with, you wouldn't have to spend so much time stealing House seats

>>1454916
>its the court who ordered that the state draw districts that guarantee democrats win
Show me a court order mandating Mississippi draw districts that guarantee Democrats win

>>1454917
That's what happened bud.
>stealing house seats
Like Newsome literally just did?

>>1454920
Republicans win the black vote?

>>1454923
>Like Newsome literally just did?
Keep forgetting how California literally said repeatedly they'd only do this provocation if Texas went through with their own blatant gerrymandering. Don't start fights and bitch when the other guy punches you back.

>Republicans win the black vote?
Way to admit Republicans have no minority appeal.

>>1454925
>Texas went through with their own blatant gerrymandering
You mean the thing they have been trying yo do for five (5) years and that is no worse than Calis current map or Illinois map?
>were fighting back!
No. Newsome started a war that's going to cost Dems the house for at least a decade. What was just Texas redrawing its map has turned into 7 republican states redrawing maps.

Well done. So clever.

>>1454927
Acting like those states weren't redrawing maps the moment Texas started is delusional.
>Oh just please let us have this little bit of gerrymandering, please please please. I solemnly swear we'll never do it anywhere else for any reason, even though we're doing it in Texas purely to try and soak up our bleeding voterbase.

>>1454928
These are the people who want you to believe that Obama was in office when the economy tanked in 2008, and that Joe Biden was the president in 2020.
Rewriting history is the only way they can justify anything they do

>>1454927
>Newsome started a war that's going to cost Dems the house for at least a decade
You literally just got swept even in hard red areas. And every fucking report said that Republicans fucking up affordability and refusing to so much as acknowledge Trump's policies are objective failures is to blame. You won't learn from your mistakes because no amount of gerrymandering will earn back the voters you've pissed off.

>>1454927
Who was president five (5) years ago again?

>>1454931
You're making the mistake of accepting his premise that this has been in court for 5 years.
The very foundation of his entire argument is based on a lie. By your even accepting that, he wins.

>>1454909
>Republicans are not allowed to cheat with racist gerrymandering
>Suddenly Republicans magically can't win every election now, because they can't cheat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhnsC2V4_0w

>>1454965
what?

>>1454929
>Obama
>2008
Man, why are the Conservatives shills here so stupid when spewing their lies? I kinda want flags enabled to see what non American country they are all spamming their lies from.

>>1454967
>LeFalseFlagKing.jpg

>>1454831
>>1454853
>>1454885
>Solid blue strongholds and a purple state are some massive political movement?
yeah I wonder why the state where all of the federal employees live would not be happy with republicans right now

What a fucking mystery scoobs
i bet old farmer miller is behind this one

the problem is the GOP and democrats don't have real politicians. They don't have anyone who saw this shutdown and said "There's an election this year and we need to get ahead of it". They have a bunch of redditors educated from the university of twitter who get hired because they're the son of someone who was the best friend with the Democrat whip 40 years ago. So because we have nepobaby politicians, we get nepobaby politics like "Let's try starving federal employees the year Virginia has a major election, that'll teach em"

typically the strategy for purple states and blue strongholds is to mitigate the damage, win some/lose some, lose state elections, win local elections. that did not happen here, this was a blowout, a catastrophe, a sign that every single person in Virginia knows someone who is being fucked over right now and wants blood.

>>1454929
>>1454968
it doesn't matter, the person responsible for the dot com bubble bursting and eventual housing bubble burst was Clinton when he relaxed Glas-Steagall
>many commentators argued Glass–Steagall was already "dead".[6] Most notably, Citibank's 1998 affiliation with Salomon Smith Barney, one of the largest U.S. securities firms, was permitted under the Federal Reserve Board's then existing interpretation of the Glass–Steagall Act.[7] In November 1999, President Bill Clinton publicly declared "the Glass–Steagall law is no longer appropriate".[8][9]
When are you going to learn all these parties are in it together and the problem in general is that nobody has real politicians, anymore? An actual politician would have seen this coming and at least spoke of it. Our politicians make stock options from it.

>>1454982
>Ignoring it was the congressional republicans who were heavily pushing for glass-stegall's repeal
>Or the fact the housing market crash was because of Republican deregulation, ignoring all the warnings and bush encouraging people to live outside their means and buy houses.
At least we know you're an actual shill. Especially with how you're downplaying the election.

I'd love to see how you'd spin Democrats ousting the two Republicans up for re-election for the Georgia Public Service Commission, meaning it was a statewide election too.

>>1454992
>Blames everything on Trump
>Blames literally EVERYTHING on Trump
>Clinton was a good boy, he dindu nuffin.
Power of the pen is mighty, you dumbass faggot.

>>1454993
You right wing shills sure are cranky today

>>1454993
Trump wasn't even mentioned in that post retard.

>>1454996
But you do blame him for everything. Yet you can't even blame Clinton for something he put his fucking name on specifically.
The fuck's your problem?

>>1454997
Camron.jpg

>>1454997
Let's not even mention that many of the Republicans of that era are now never Trump retards.

>>1455000
And just like how the tea baggers purged all of the 'moderate' Republicans in new England, MAGA has purged all the 'never trumpers' so the Republicans have managed to shift to the fringe right wing in the past 40 years.

>>1454831
Sad how this is yet another double standard controversy where these texts wouldn't be a blip on the radar if a Republican sent it, but it had to be a career ender since it was from a Democrat.
Which made it all the more hilarious that the Democrat tanked it and people voted for him over the MAGA puppet the Republicans put up. It shows how much people hate trump that they'll ignore their normal double standards.

>>1455004
>MAGA has purged all the 'never trumpers'
>so the Republicans have managed to shift to the fringe right wing in the past 40 years.
Fucking what?

>>1454831
Virginia is filled with government workers. Fucking them over for a whole year isn't exactly a vote winner.

>>1455005
He got elected despite the texts. Republicans just had a purge of the YR leadership because of far tamer texts.

We are not the same.

>>1454831
>Blue wave
The "reddest" seat Dems took NATIONALLY was Trump +2.9. Not a wave, just the pendulum swinging back.

>>1455016
>tamer texts
>Supporting and joking about slavery, rape, gas chambers, aka the holocaust and other sexist and racist remarks
>purge Young Republicans
>When Republicans and their shills lined up to downplay and defend their fellow conservatives for their comments joking and supporting slavery, rape, gas chambers, aka the holocaust and other sexist and racist remarks.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jd-vance-right-wing-influencers-young-republicans-texts-1235448073/

You, are clearly worse.

>>1455029
They all got removed from their posts and positions. Democrats just gave a Democrat who said he wanted to kill the children of a political opponent he personally knows the top law enforcement job in the state.

We're not the same.

>>1455031
>They all got removed from their posts and positions
Clearly not since I don't see articles about the specifically people responsible being expelled, only smoke and mirrors straight out of the catholic church cover up their sex offenders. Just like how conservatives defense trump interesting enough.
So yeah, those racist, sexist, violent bigot who are the future of the republican party are still apart of the party.

You, are clearly worse.

>>1455126
Advocating for the deaths of children is far worse than being racist anon.

Don't be a psychopath.

>>1455139
But republicans are doing both given trump is illegally with holding food from starving children now.
Follow your own advice.

>>1455139
>Advocating for the deaths of children
He didn't. He advocated for dipshits to come to Jesus on stopping violent crime. He just suggested them experiencing the consequences of that shit first hand might accomplish that. It wasn't the end goal.

Also, this wasn't public advocacy, vs someone like Stephen Miller suggesting that every immigrant in NYC be deported as retribution for Mamdani's win while calling specific attention to the harm this would cause to children.

Oh and AGs don't have the power to shoot kids, unlike Stephen Miller setting immigration policy.

Republicans are literal demons, so you fuckwads crying about a lack of civility falls on deaf ears. Maybe you should call Dems hypocrites instead? I could use a laugh.

>>1455143
>He didn't.
He called them 'little fascists', which is how democrats draw a target on republicans for political violence. Also happened to Charlie Kirk.
>Oh and AGs don't have the power to shoot kids, unlike Stephen Miller setting immigration policy.
Jay Jones being a extremist is a single issue. He'll wreak havoc on his state by letting violent criminals out on a 'racially equitable basis'. But him having popular support is far worse.

Leading Democrats have spent the last decade convincing retarded cattle that we all have a secret plot to exterminate every nonwhite, non-christian person on the planet, because they are trying to justify their own genocidal intent. And now democrats want to kill us, and not just us, but also our children because they think facebook and CNN are real life.

Jay Jones is unironically advocating for terrorism and you're trying to justify it. You're self-reporting that you can no longer be reasoned with.

>>1455151
>Jay Jones is unironically advocating for terrorism and you're trying to justify it
I didn't justify it. I just said I don't give a shit.

>And now democrats want to kill us, and not just us, but also our children because they think facebook and CNN are real life.
I'm glad that you think that because you deserve to live with that level of paranoia. Fuck off and suffer.

>You're self-reporting that you can no longer be reasoned with.
Why are you trying to reason with someone who you think wants you exterminated? I haven't tried reasoning with you mad fuckers since early 2020. God you're as stupid as you are evil. You don't get enough hatred and mockery.

>>1455151
>Also happened to Charlie Kirk.
That far right wing podcaster that got offed by a groyper for not being far right wing enough and the right went on a cancel culture spree over people correctly quoting him?
Yeah, the hypocrisy of the right wing was pretty on brand for you guys.
But if you're trying to say a groyper who offed a far right podcaster would have a chance of getting elected as AG of Virginia.
I want to know what drugs you're on to come up with that vision.

>>1455152
>Why are you trying to reason with someone who you think wants you exterminated?
I'm letting you have the opportunity to demonstrate your character in public.

The greatest cruelty in this world, especially among animals, is suffering for reasons which we cannot understand. In the spirit of charity I have given you a gift of knowledge.

Forgiveness requires penitence. Now that you know what you are doing is wrong, you will have a chance to repent before the uncertainty of the future comes rushing towards you.

Take solace in knowing that even if you are unwilling to seek forgiveness from your enemies, you will be able to seek forgiveness from yourself for manifesting such evil into your life.

>>1455164
>Forgiveness requires penitence
I don't want your forgiveness. I've seen your virtues.

>>1454831
those texts really should have been disqualifying. What a deranged lunatic who is now the top attorney in Virginia. Does anybody think he can be remotely fair or unbiased?
>>1455126
>racist
remind me again which party wants public universities to discriminate by race?
>>1455142
Democrats refuse to pass a CR because they want to use starving children as a political game.

>>1455176
>those texts really should have been disqualifying.
Free speech
>remind me again which party wants public universities to discriminate by race?
I dunno? Let's move to end legacy admissions and see who throws a shitfit.
>Democrats refuse to pass a CR because they want to use starving children as a political game.
Passing the CR has nothing to do with feeding children. Dems have tried to pass funding for SNAP during the shutdown and Republicans have blocked it.
>https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/03/congress/barrasso-democrat-resolution-snap-food-aid-shutdown-00634229

>>1455176
>Does anybody think he can be remotely fair or unbiased?
He doesn't have to be. He just has to recuse himself from any cases he has a bias towards.

And he would have to do that shit for political opponents in the first place, so how the fuck are the statements disqualifying?

Unrelated, how are those cases against Comey/Bolton/James going? They been thrown out yet?

>>1455306
top-tier seethe

>>1455306
If you backed up your threats like your kind did against that fellow far right wing blogger, I might become concerned.

>>1455306
Republicans are finished. The party getting behind trump sealed the deal. The only Republicans left with any respectability are the minority that don't support trump and don't matter, the rand Pauls and such.

Democrats are looking forward to a decade of power in the US, assuming trump doesn't cause it to implode in the mean time

>>1455329
>Republicans are finished.
Actually, no, just the opposite.
We used Trump as an instrument to seize control of the party from the worthless neocon elitist shitbag RINOs and used it to replace Clintonian third way neoliberalism with patriotic nationalism. This is further engraved into the minds of conservatives with every psychotic, narcissistic, openly celebratory shitposts from trannies threatening consequences against any and all who disagree with rigging elections via importation of mudbloods.
We voted for all of this, we won, we are in charge now and for the foreseeable future, and things are going even better and happening even faster than we expected.

>>1455334
>republicans are losing steam but i think you're under estimating how much the average person hates democrats.
Evidently not much considering the guy you're bitching about won his election by a pretty decent margin. Sounds a lot more like people hate Republicans.

>>1455337
>Sounds a lot more like people hate Republicans.
This is more of a problem for democrats than republicans. Because if you're willing to elect the "let's kill conservative kids" guy, then you're already on your way out.

>>1455339
>It's a problem for Democrats that people hate Republicans so much they elect that guy
So Democrats winning and Republicans being immensely unpopular is a bad thing... for Dems. Got it.

Maybe you should've reigned retard-in-chief in before he fucked up our economy, public health, and, oh yeah, fucked all those kids and made his entire party complicit in covering it up. Though granted, by the time you retards voted for him, it was a bit too late for that last one.

>>1455342
>Only thing against him is he's friends with a human trafficking victim rapist and animal abuser.
I'm sorry, I think you've gotten Mamdani mixed up with Trump, best friend of Epstein who put Kristi "I love shooting puppies" Noem in charge of ICE.

>>1455343
>but whattabout-
There's a stark difference between the lies you tell yourself about what Republicans believe and what Democrats openly condone in public.

If your party position is "let's kill conservatives and their kids", then you've guaranteed all-out civil war.

>>1455350
>If your party position is "let's kill conservatives and their kids", then you've guaranteed all-out civil war.
Republican position is "Let's kill commies and pedos" and then simultaneously "All LGBT people are pedos and all libs are commies", so evidently that argument is already shot.

What, don't like a taste of your own medicine? Or are only you allowed to make threats?

>>1455361
>doubling down
Alrighty

>>1455334
>More violent rhetoric fro the fringe right wing
No wonder you whacked that far right blogger.

>>1455361
I've noticed the far right wing that is the republican party is interesting silent over grooming and pedos after trump refused to release the epstein list, mainly because he's at the top of it since he co-ran it.

>leftists condemn the Repuvblican party refusing to make child marriages illegal in certain states, thus the GOP: Gang Of Pedophiles
>rightists in /news/ refuse to do anything about those Republicans, thus condone pedophilia
>leftists want the Epstein Files released unredacted, and so what if the Republicans are destroyed in the process: that happening could only be a good thing. They're willing to throw Bill Clinton under the bus
MAGAts chant their mantra against those wanting the Epstein List released: 'Cut the shit' because they support their orange Pedo-in-Chief or would throw Trump under the bus and demand the release of the Epstein Files even more than the leftists do
So rightists love pedophiles, huh.
And projection too.

>>1455508
Dems care about Epstein because he was a member of a international eastern european (wuh-height) crime syndicate. They still harbor pedophiles in the T and G of LGBT and made excuses for Kill-mar.
>not the heckin immigrantinos, not muh nummy taco stands!
Deport leftists.

Trump TACO'd out of releasing the Epstein List, despite making the releasing such a campaign policy last year. MAGAts don't call him out on this because they now condone pedophilia.
And one of them in /news/ - the post immediately above this one - needs to project due to being one of those pedo enablers..

>>1455492
>Rightoid saying this when they're defending the pedophile king, trump, to the death.