Episode 873: Thunderclap in Virginia
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Democrats face plant in Virginia, and why doesn't AOC believe in billionaires? We'll discuss all this more. |
| 0:23.2 | on this edition of the editors. I'm Richard Leroy. I'm joined as always by the right. |
| 0:25.7 | Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the good neighbor, Noah Rothman, and the notorious M.B.D. |
| 0:31.7 | Michael Brennan Doherty, you are, of course, listening to a Nashville podcast. |
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| 0:52.7 | anything. So MBD, we have a thunder clap in Virginia where the Democrats believed they had |
| 0:54.9 | successfully redistricted their congressional map or redrawn their congressional map to go to |
| 1:03.1 | 6-5 Democratic Advantage, to go to 11-1 Democratic Advantage. |
| 1:08.7 | But they really had to jam this through, ran roughshod over various rules. |
| 1:14.6 | Most importantly, according to the Virginia Supreme Court, the rule that you had to have an intervening legislative election before you could go to a constitutional amendment. The way it works, is the general |
| 1:21.5 | assembly supposed to pass a proposed constitutional amendment? Then voters get to render a verdict |
| 1:32.2 | on these general assembly members based on how they voted on the proposed amendment for or against whatever. |
| 1:38.7 | Then the assembly, after this intervening election, votes again. |
| 1:45.3 | Exact same language, proposed constitutional amendment. |
| 1:49.8 | Then it goes to the voters. |
| 1:53.0 | But the problem was the first step of this process, they did this in a panic in reaction to Texas. |
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