Lawrence: Tucker Carlson, Virginia voters, and the rest of America are turning on Trump

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: In a big midterms boost to Democrats, the AP projects Virginia voters approved a redistricting map ahead of the 2026 midterms. And U.S. companies are owed over $160B in tariff refunds. Gov. Abigail Spanberger, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Rep. James Walkinshaw, and Rick Woldenberg join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	It's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:03.0	Hey, Lawrence.
0:04.0	Hey, Jen.
0:04.7	We have Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger joining us tonight.
0:08.9	We also have the next, very big night, the next speaker of the House of King Jeffries,
0:14.5	who took a big step tonight to get closer to that speakership and Democratic control of the House next year.
0:21.8	You have two of the people who were probably celebrating the most, have done a lot of the work,
0:27.6	feel probably relieved and happy by the outcome tonight, which is really incredible.
0:32.3	Yeah, and I actually, so I have reason to believe they were fairly confident this was going to
0:37.2	happen, which is why they're here at this hour.
0:41.4	And we're going to get right to it.
0:43.7	Sounds good. I look forward to watching.
0:45.0	Thanks, Jen. Thank you.
0:46.0	A huge victory for democracy tonight in Virginia, which means another huge loss for Donald Trump, with American voters turning
0:57.5	against Donald Trump once again. Donald Trump is now one step closer to losing Republican
1:05.1	control of the House representatives. The Associated Press projects Virginia voters said yes tonight
1:10.3	to redistricting plan designed to
1:14.0	fight Donald Trump's redistricting conspiracy that he launched in Texas in an attempt to increase
1:21.7	the number of Republican members of the House representatives so that Republicans could hang
1:25.7	on to control of the House.
1:35.2	The redistricting program Virginia voters approved tonight could add possibly four Democrats from Virginia to the House representatives next year. And Donald Trump knows that Democratic
1:40.8	control of the House representatives means serious subpoena power for investigations
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