President is urging Virginians going to the polls Tuesday to reject a redistricting ballot measure that could hand Democrats as many as four House seats in November, a large haul with House Republicans hanging onto a slim majority.
“This referendum is a blatant partisan power grab that nobodys really ever seen anything like it,” Trump told a telerally call with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Monday night, The Hill reported.
Just say “no” to Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s push, he added.
“Its the liberal extremist Gov. Abigail Spanberger, too bad, and the far-left Democrats in Richmond after Spanberger promised Virginia voters that she would never do this,” he told the call. “And if it passes, Virginia Democrats will eliminate four out of five congressional seats, so youre going to get just wiped out in terms of representation in Washington.
“Thats what its all about. Please get out and vote and vote no. Its very simple,” the president added. “Just vote no.”Â
Virginia has moved to push through a new map before the 2026 midterms, something that would not otherwise happen before the 2030 census.
Democrats currently hold six of the 11 House seats in Virginia, a state that narrowly went for former Vice President in 2024, but the new map would hand the Democrats a huge 10-1 advantage.
Among the nearly 6 million registered voters in the state of Virginia, Democrats do have an edge, but not one that wide. The state is majority Democrat (51.24%), but Republicans (30.56%) and independents (18.2%) are both well represented, according to Independent Voter Project data.
“We have to stand up for fair maps and we have to vote no,” Johnson told the call.Â
“As your , I see firsthand every single day how all five of those members are leading the fight on things like lowering costs and securing our borders and making Virginia and America great again,” he said. “And we need to return all five of them to Congress this November.”
Johnson was referring to the vulnerable seats of Virginia GOP Reps. Rob Wittman, Jen Kiggans, John McGuire, Ben Cline, and Morgan Griffith.
The new map would leave only Griffith’s 9th Congressional District with a Republican edge, but it would pit him against Cline in a difficult primary. Kiggans’ seat would remain a , but one trending further into the favor of Democrats.
“They definitely want to ,” Cline told the Ruthless Podcast last week. “Massachusetts used to have Republican members of Congress, a much more balanced delegation. Now its 9-0. But Republicans vote, what, 40% of the population there. They do it in Illinois. Most of the states where they control, theyre trying to just draw Republicans completely out.”
It is not just about gaining house seats either. The map difficulty moves future candidates further left even on the right, according to Cline.
“Their goal is the long game,” Cline added. “It is the short game of the next election, but its also the long game of trying to turn rural Virginia into either a non-impact on or convert. You either assimilate or youre destroyed.”
Griffith is planning a legal challenge on the structure of Tuesday’s special election ballot question for its “compactness, other arguments about the process, and the question on the ballot,” he told WJHL.
“These maps are horrible, and they do not work for good government, or
