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Daily Signal Podcast: Redistricting in a Rush: What Virginia Voters Need To Know

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Virginia is facing a push to hold a special vote, likely in mid-April, to overturn a 65%-approved nonpartisan redistricting commission. Joe Thomas, The Daily Signal’s Virginia correspondent, breaks down the proposed change that would allow the state to redraw districts reactively if other states change theirs. “ North Carolina, and even New York state is talking […]

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Redistricting. You hear the most outrageous lies.

0:33.6

Apologies to the writers of the movie Repo Man, The Gogglebox do-goaters that are out there

0:42.0

trying to tell you where and what is really going on in Virginia redistricting are trying to get

0:51.1

you to vote for it probably in middle April. They need to have this vote cast by the

0:59.1

middle of April so that there is time if they do succeed in convincing you to overturn an election

1:05.6

that went down 65% in favor of a nonpartisan redistricting commission that each 10 years would redraw

1:14.2

Virginia's districts based on population shifts, tear that up in favor of a reactionary bill

1:22.6

that would allow them, if another state changed their districts, Virginia could invoke this constitutional

1:31.6

amendment to recreate theirs. So that's what's going on here in Virginia. And just as a quick note,

1:40.0

this is what it looks like nationwide. When you look at the states that are discussing whether or not to redistrict, you're looking at

1:48.3

certainly Texas, the beginning of all of this, but a reminder about Texas.

1:53.0

This was court-ordered redistricting because it had been determined that Texas's districts

1:59.5

were drawn racially biased, and you're not allowed to do that.

2:04.3

Then California said, well, if they're going to redistrict, then we're going to redistrict.

2:09.1

And you can see on the map how few Republican places there are in California, and they're trying to make that even fewer.

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