{"id":56042,"date":"2025-10-24T12:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/virginia-lawmakers-aim-to-redraw-maps-to-help-democrats-gain-seats-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:54:56","slug":"virginia-lawmakers-aim-to-redraw-maps-to-help-democrats-gain-seats-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/virginia-lawmakers-aim-to-redraw-maps-to-help-democrats-gain-seats-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia lawmakers aim to redraw maps to help Democrats gain seats in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State becomes second to attempt to redistrict to benefit Democrats in response to Republicans\u2019 efforts to gain seats<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/oct\/24\/donald-trump-trade-negotiations-canada-mark-carney-terminated-tariff-letitia-james-new-york-us-politics-live-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/virginia\">Virginia<\/a> has entered the national mid-cycle redistricting battle, with Democratic state lawmakers intent on redrawing the state\u2019s congressional maps to deliver two or three additional Democrats to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia currently has a 6-5 split in its delegation, favoring Democrats by one member. Don Scott, the Democratic Virginia house speaker, sent a letter on Thursday to members alerting them to a reconvening of a special session to consider legislation. The letter does not explicitly state that redistricting is on the agenda, but national organizations said they have been informed that this is the case.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/24\/virginia-redistrict-maps-democrats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State becomes second to attempt to redistrict to benefit Democrats in response to Republicans\u2019 efforts to gain seats US politics live \u2013 latest updates Virginia has entered the national mid-cycle redistricting battle, with Democratic state lawmakers intent on redrawing the state\u2019s congressional maps to deliver two or three additional Democrats to Washington. Virginia currently has &#8230; <a title=\"Virginia lawmakers aim to redraw maps to help Democrats gain seats in Congress\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/virginia-lawmakers-aim-to-redraw-maps-to-help-democrats-gain-seats-in-congress\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Virginia lawmakers aim to redraw maps to help Democrats gain seats in Congress\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}