Democrats are gloating over a sneak attack they think checkmated President Trump.
Republicans got some bad news.
And Donald Trump suffered one gut-wrenching defeat that spells doom.
Democrats in Virginia rammed through a redistricting referendum that redraws the commonwealth’s Congressional map from one that is 6-5 Democrat to a new 10-1 Democrat map.
Flipping these four seats could hand the House majority to Democrats.
Kamala Harris won Virginia by 5 points in 2024.
This referendum squeaked through by the skin of its teeth on a 51-49 margin,
But Democrats will now control 91 percent of the Congressional seats.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger celebrated the referendum’s passing as a rebuke of Trump.
Virginia voters have spoken, and tonight they pushed back against a President who claims he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress.
“As we watched other states go along with those demands without voter input, Virginians refused to let that stand. We responded the right way: at the ballot box,” Spanberger wrote on X.
When Spanberger was campaigning for governor, she sidestepped questions about the redistricting referendum as part of her scheme to fake being a moderate.
“Virginia, by constitutional amendment, has a new redistricting effort that was put in place and first utilized in the 2021 redistricting. I’ve been watching with interest what other states are doing, but I have no plans to redistrict Virginia,” Spanberger said in August 2025.
Virginia Democrat Senator Tim Kaine also spiked the football, unleashing incendiary rhetoric about Trump being a tyrant.
“So we’re going to stand up against tyrants and try to match what he’s doing. And that’s what Virginians did tonight. We lived up to our state motto, and we stood up to tyranny. And we’re going to be a check against the outrageous overreach of this president,” Kaine said on MSNOW.
Conservatives pointed at the GOP establishment for sabotaging the referendum through a lack of support.
Former Trump administration press secretary Sean Spicer blasted the establishment for zero grassroots mobilization.
“This was so avoidable. Republicans knew this was coming. Did almost nothing to engage and motivate grassroots,” Spicer wrote on X.
Spicer slammed establishment consultants for getting rich off TV ads and failing to fund programs to turn out voters.
“Congratulations on pissing away more donor money on TV ads that didn’t do a thing to move the needle – the only “winner” were the same consultants who lost in November and got their cut of the buy,” Spicer added.
Spicer warned that losing these four seats to redistricting could hand the House to Democrats, where they would surely impeach President Trump again.
“Decent chance these 4 seats could decide the majority in the US House,” Spicer concluded.
John Massoud, chair of the Sixth Congressional District GOP, blamed the Republican National Committee for the loss.
“I have heard multiple complaints about no help from the RNC,” Massoud told journalist Rachel Bade. “I will say: the RNC has provided some field staff, which is greatly appreciated, but I will tell you with a straight face: The RNCs should have been more helpful.”
“We are finally — right now — at a parity with a Democratic organization that is funding this god-awful monstrosity, but we were not at parity for quite some time. The RNC could have donated some money, which would have allowed us to run more TV ads, or streaming ads, or text campaigns,” Massoud added.
GOP establishment donors spent $100 million for pro-amnesty, pro-gun control RINO Senator John Cornyn to limp into a primary runoff with Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton.
This was yet another example of the GOP establishment derailing President Trump because RINOs would rather pour money into defeating conservatives instead of stopping Democrats.
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