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Posted on 04/22/2026 10:33:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In 2020 Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to lose Virginia twice since William Howard Taft. Then in 2024 Trump lost once more, this time to Kamala Harris. Now he has in effect lost it a fourth time as Virginia voters approved on Tuesday a fiercely contested referendum redrawing congressional districts to favor Democratic congressional candidates in the 2026 midterm elections. “This is really a country election. The whole country is watching,” Trump said.
If so, it watched Trump suffer a major blow – one that will prompt renewed questions about his political acuity and judgment. It was Trump, after all, who kicked off the spate of gerrymandering in August 2025 by demanding that Texas Republicans engage in geographic contortions to deprive Democrats, as far as possible, from capturing the House of Representatives.
He went on to insist that Indiana do so as well only to see its state legislators balk at carrying out his peremptory use. But even in the states that heeded his wishes such as Texas, his mounting unpopularity may subvert his electoral designs. It now appears that the Democrats may win not only the House but also the Senate.
This unexpected turn of events has its origins in Trump’s ill-advised foray into Iran and concomitant failure to revive the economy. The mood in America has soured. A new AP-NORC poll indicates that soaring fuel prices have caused Trump’s overall popularity rating to fall to a dismal 33 percent. Only 30 percent of voters approve of his handling of the economy and 23 percent of his approach to cost of living issues.
Trump’s fusillade of self-contradictory statements about Iran have done little to inspire confidence in his presidency. One minute he has vowed to bomb the country back to the Stone Age. The next he has proclaimed that peace is at hand. On Tuesday he climbed down from his latest threats to extend the ceasefire indefinitely.
Meanwhile, Iran is winning the propaganda war, issuing a stream of LEGO AI videos skewering Trump and his associates for their bluff and bombast, not to mention FBI Director Kash Patel’s alleged bouts of crapulosity as reported in the Atlantic magazine. In response he’s lodged a $250 million defamation suit against it.
The best that can be said for the turmoil is that there’s never a dull moment in Trump’s Washington. But voters are reacting allergically. Some Virginia voters explained their readiness to vote for the referendum, which is expected to add an additional four seats for the Democrats, by contending that desperate times call for desperate measures. The idea is that saving democracy requires crimping democracy. A 10-1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans hardly reflects the political complexion of the state. But the same can be said of Republican states that have sought to banish Democratic candidates.
The Democratic victory in Virginia will instill even more fear and loathing in Trump about the midterms. He is increasingly a cornered president. So far, the Republican Party has remained largely loyal to him. The splits on the right that have occurred are mostly among influencers and pundits such as Tucker Carlson or Ann Coulter.
It is in Trump’s interest to provoke as much chaos as possible around the elections. His Justice Department is making serial attempts to seize election ballots from the 2020 elections, but has failed to make any of its claims about potential election fraud stick.
Trump wants dominion. But the results from the Old Dominion State have further complicated his efforts to upend the midterm elections. The Democrats are on a path to win them.
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Trump did lose Va in 20 so f these guys.
First off, the referendum was statewide in a state he lost. Second, I expected them to lose by a mile, not for it to be that close.
Finally- the Supreme Court decision is coming. Florida is going to answer. We shall see how this shakes out.
Trump’s Woes.
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I really giggle when I see This Junk.
This is not about Trump. It shows how extreme the Dems have become, kind of the IRGC of America.
On the contrary. Despite the loss, the race was much closer than anyone anticipated.
I’d like to see this list of “woes” this ying yang is talking about
Virginia is a shi8 hole.
Florida will have the final say.
Time for the red states to pull the same gerrymandering tactic.
How so? Im not familiar with the case.
The Democrats and Virginia should be embarrassed. Let’s see what the VA Supreme Court says and what the US Supreme Court says.
Republicans could gerrymander every red state and destroy the Democratic Party but they won’t , that’s not Trump’s fault
They lead all the way to the democrat ballot dump is what I heard.
Dems are always ruthless and the GOP shies away from fights and is in disarray, as Alex Marlow said on his show this morning.
True.
A referendum won by a slim majority is used to disenfranchise very close to half the voters in the state? Very illustrative of why the founding fathers rejected a pure democracy. Remember the description of democracy being like two wolves and a sheep arguing about what’s for supper.
I cannot imagine that this is remotely Constitutional. What if the result had been 10 to 1 white districts to black? This is absurd and evil.
“Dems have become, kind of the IRGC of America.”
In terms of hate, yes. Good thing most of them are afraid of guns.
Trump is poised to give Arlington back to DC by executive order. According to the Constitution, it belongs to DC but was annexed back to Virginia illegally so that they could retain their slaves.
Virginia is now a one-party rule state. Exactly like in Russia. And in Iran. And in N.Korea. And in China.
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