Trump Started the Gerrymandering War. Now He's Crying Rigged.
April 24, 2026
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8:31Now PlayingTrump Started the Gerrymandering War. Now He's Crying Rigged.
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as posted by the channelDonald Trump called Virginia's redistricting vote "rigged." Then someone pointed out he's the one who started the mid-decade gerrymandering arms race. Here are the receipts.
In 2025, Trump pressured Republican-controlled legislatures in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio to tear up their existing congressional maps and draw new partisan ones — mid-decade, no census, no justification beyond protecting his House majority. Republicans added nine Republican-leaning seats.
On April 21st, 2026, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment redrawing the state's congressional maps. Democrats went from six of eleven seats to a projected ten of eleven. Trump called it rigged.
Ari Fleischer — George W. Bush's White House press secretary — publicly said Republicans "should not have started this fight."
The party that wrote the rulebook is losing the game. By one seat.
SOURCES:
Huffpost: “Trump Started A Redistricting War. Democrats Are Winning It.”(April 2026)
The New Republic: “MAGA Loses It as Trump’s Redistricting Plot Backfires”
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