{"id":36552,"date":"2026-04-21T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/36552\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:29:10","slug":"trump-and-maga-freak-out-as-virginia-votes-on-new-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/36552\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and MAGA Freak Out as Virginia Votes on New Congressional Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">President Trump and his MAGA coalition are beginning to panic as the threat of a successful Democratic redistricting vote on Tuesday in Virginia looms over them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis is what they\u2019re going to be doing.\u2026 If [the Democrats] get additional House seats, at some point, if they get these additional seats they\u2019re gonna be making changes at the federal levels,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hqnewsnow\/status\/2046377639930167793\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:warned;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;warned&quot;}\" class=\"link \">warned<\/a> on a tele-rally call with Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ballot measure to redraw the congressional map could give the Democrats a greater chance to regain control of the House of Representatives, giving them potentially four more seats. Under the new map, Virginia Democrats could hold every House seat except for one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That would in turn have massive implications for the president\u2019s agenda, which he\u2014and the rest of his supporters\u2014are very concerned about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fox News\u2019s Brit Hume <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TVNewsNow\/status\/2046365348274880658\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lamented;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;lamented&quot;}\" class=\"link \">lamented<\/a> the effort as one not to ensure fairness but to \u201censure Democrats have many more seats than they do now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MAGA muse Steve Bannon shared an even bleaker diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis is their plan&#8230;. Not just, are they going to take power and use these four seats to impeach Trump? But they\u2019re going to use this as a template for the rest of the country. It\u2019s coming,\u201d Bannon <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/no\/podcast\/episode-5313-losing-virginia-leads-to-impeachment-continued\/id1485351658?i=1000762433935\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> on the Monday episode of his War Room podcast. \u201cThese Democrats are demonic.\u2026 If they weren\u2019t demonic, wouldn\u2019t they show you the map? Wouldn\u2019t they walk you through the logic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Each of these comments ignores that these redistricting wars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/republican-gerrymandering-hilariously-backfires-texas-183938918.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:started;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;started&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">started<\/a> with Texas Republicans doing the bidding of Trump last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Polls close Tuesday at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump and his MAGA coalition are beginning to panic as the threat of a successful Democratic redistricting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[24051,3947,478,64,5156,19011],"class_list":{"0":"post-36552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mike-johnson","8":"tag-additional-seats","9":"tag-maga","10":"tag-mike-johnson","11":"tag-president-trump","12":"tag-speaker-mike-johnson","13":"tag-virginia-democrats"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116444356084071823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}