Trump gewinnt groß, da die Demokraten in Virginia nicht auf Atomkraft umsteigen, um vier Sitze im Repräsentantenhaus zu retten

The Republican gerrymandering may very well fail if enough people go out and *vote*. If you know anyone in your family who you can convince to vote, *remind them to vote*. For America’s present, and *future*. I want our future to be a non-fascist dictatorship one. I think most people agree with that.

Clearly they should retire them anyway.

When Mitch McConnell decided the steal the scotus the left should have stooped as low..
Rank and file begged the Dems to go „nuclear“ in 2020…
We trusted the Dems would use office to prevent another trump and rebalance… They didn’t🤮

Red states are redrawing maps quickly: Tennessee, Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida.

Democratic leaders aren’t responding to this crisis with the same urgency. We’ve only redrawn California and Utah. Virginia was struck down and Virginia democrats are accepting defeat even though their constituents voted to redraw the maps.

ETA: [Here is a PBS article with a state-by-state guide to the redistricting fight](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/a-state-by-state-guide-to-the-redistricting-fight)

Fight dirty. Rules and laws don’t matter to him. Break them both to stop MAGA

Democrats are still favored to take the House, but if the Republicans succeed in gerrymandering and suppressing the vote in 2026, after all of the open harm they have done to this country, the American republic is finished.

Vote like it’s the last time they will allow it, because if you don’t, it will be.

I hate this framing as if gerrymandering is what saves democracy lol. The republicans gerrymandering their districts is already likely to backfire tremendously for them

I heard someone say earlier, Dems choose to lay down in the chalk outline that was drawn for them

Maybe that 33% that didn’t vote last time should get off their ass, stop complaining about how bad Trump is ruining the economy and vote.

If I’m reading the article correctly, this is a time crunch set up by old election laws that they are trying to update. But too late for this issue.

It’s a pity, but not a “big win” for Trump. Not until the election is over and the gerrymandered districts’ votes are counted. Because between the price of gas, groceries, housing and just everything, republicans may actually have to work for people’s votes and not just sit back, comfortable in the knowledge the (R) after their name makes them golden. That R is getting mighty tarnished. There actually seems to be some shit stuck on it in places. It might not work in their favor, after all.

Every comment is saying the same variation of “dems do nothing”. I’m sure this is all natural and not bot infected at all.

Can anyone actually read the article seriously? They could not execute because the deadline is impossible to meet given the legislative tasks and ballot printing etc involved.

I don’t know who’s worse, Greg Sargent for writing this is a way to make it look like Dems are giving up in Virginia or the idiots in these comments that probably had their „Dems bad“ comments ready to go and didn’t even bother to read the article. Do the people whining about Democrats think removing and replacing Virginia Supreme Court justices and having another review of the referendum case is that simple?

And for the dumbasses whining about the DNC, they have nothing to do with this whatsoever. Are you all really this braindead?

I’m so sick of dems being so adamantly opposed to doing literally anything.

Politicians will never save us

1. It sucks, but even if every southern state redid their maps for the midterm, and none of their districts were stretched too thin and Republicans got every single pick up they planned in each state, it just brings Dems from the 40+ seat flip they were expecting, to more like a 20-25 seat flip, which would create a larger majority than they had in 2021, and let’s be honest the Republicans probably won’t even win half the seats their trying to gerrymander in place. What Dems need to do is have a concrete gerry meandering plan that they move on the minute the 2026 midterm ends, so they have a chance in the 2028 election.

2. To this end, Virginia Dems need to move to lower the retirement age for supreme court Justices. They CANT do it something crazy like 54 to get the whole court out like has been suggested. That’s a sure fire way to completely lose independent support in the state. What they should do is drop the retirement age from its current 73 to 70, which is the lowest retirement age for any state supreme court in the country, and also the most common age limit. They can easily explain it away as „coming more into line with the majority of states.“ The same argument that the Utah governor is using at add two seats to their court to bump it up to 7 seats. This forces one of the conservative justices out as soon as the change goes into effect, and sends another packing at the end of Jan 2028, before the election. The two other conservative justices terms then naturally end in early 2027 and 2028, at which point they can be replaced. This would effectively make Virgina a 5-2 court with 5 justices being selected by a fully Dem controlled state legislature, and 2 being selected by a split Rep/Dem lead legislature.