{"id":72117,"date":"2026-04-19T06:59:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/virginias-redistricting-vote-a-critical-step-for-the-swing-state\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:59:40","slug":"virginias-redistricting-vote-a-critical-step-for-the-swing-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/virginias-redistricting-vote-a-critical-step-for-the-swing-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia\u2019s redistricting vote \u2018a critical step\u2019 for the swing state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purple state which recently elected a Democratic governor will now choose whether to replace existing voting maps with ones that favor Democrats<\/p>\n<p>Nearly three months to the day after his term as Virginia\u2019s governor ended, Republican Glenn Youngkin stood in an unshaded corner of an office parking lot to warn<strong> <\/strong>dozens of conservative activists that they were in the midst of \u201cthe most important election\u201d in the commonwealth\u2019s 237-year history.<\/p>\n<p>The question before the voters casting ballots at an early voting precinct a few yards away in the city of Leesburg ahead of Tuesday\u2019s special election was whether to temporarily set aside Virginia\u2019s congressional maps intended to advantage neither party and replace them with a new version that could allow Democrats to win all but one seat in the 11-member delegation in the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/19\/virginias-map-redistricting-vote-swing-state\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purple state which recently elected a Democratic governor will now choose whether to replace existing voting maps with ones that favor Democrats Nearly three months to the day after his term as Virginia\u2019s governor ended, Republican Glenn Youngkin stood in an unshaded corner of an office parking lot to warn dozens of conservative activists that &#8230; <a title=\"Virginia\u2019s redistricting vote \u2018a critical step\u2019 for the swing state\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/virginias-redistricting-vote-a-critical-step-for-the-swing-state\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Virginia\u2019s redistricting vote \u2018a critical step\u2019 for the swing state\">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-72117","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\/72117","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=72117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}