Harry Enten Explains Democrats’ Virginia Redistricting Win | EUROtoday

CNN’s chief knowledge analyst Harry Enten didn’t mince phrases concerning the implications of Virginia’s new redistricting plan on the Republican Party.

On Tuesday, voters in Virginia authorised a Democratic-backed constitutional modification to dramatically redraw the state’s congressional map forward of the midterm elections this fall.

The transfer may hand Democrats an extra 4 congressional seats that Republicans at present maintain, and has been broadly interpreted as a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s administration ― some extent which Enten reiterated on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” late Tuesday.

Democrats, he mentioned, at the moment are “going to gerrymander this state rotten. They’re basically gonna lock Republicans out of power in a state where Donald Trump got 46% of the vote back in 2024.”

“This vote in Virginia means so very much,” he added, “and that’s why all that money was spent on it, my goodness gracious.”

Watch CNN’s Harry Enten focus on Virginia’s redistricting plan beneath.

The end result in Virginia follows the passage of California’s Proposition 50, which is able to enable the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature to redraw its congressional districts in 2025.

Many political consultants have recommended such victories point out that the Democratic party-wide coalition that appeared to fracture after Trump was reelected in 2024 could also be reemerging.

Not surprisingly, Trump swiftly denounced the outcomes of the Virginia vote and deemed Tuesday’s election “RIGGED.”

“All day long Republicans were winning, the Spirit was unbelievable, until the very end when, of course, there was a massive ‘Mail In Ballot Drop!’ Where have I heard that before — And the Democrats eked out another Crooked Victory!” he wrote Wednesday in publish on his Truth Social platform. “As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person, and even I had no idea what the hell they were talking about in the Referendum, and neither do they!”

Though Virginia’s plan is predicted to face further authorized hurdles, it’s price noting that Trump is now seen as trailing in a partisan gerrymandering battle that, by all accounts, he began.

Last yr, the president started pressuring Republican-controlled states to redraw their congressional maps mid-decade as a way to stave off anticipated Democratic victories within the midterm elections this fall, and scored early victories favorable to the GOP in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina.

Speaking to NPR’s “Morning Edition” Wednesday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) praised Virginia voters for having “understood the assignment,” including: “It was an extraordinary undertaking.”

“Donald Trump indicated that he was going to rip away 10, 12 or 15 seats from the people of this country in states like Texas and Missouri and North Carolina as part of an effort to rig the midterm elections,” he mentioned. “That effort has now been thwarted.”