The Redistricting War Is Escalating

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week, the battle for House control shifts to Florida as Governor DeSantis calls a special session to counter a recent Virginia constitutional amendment that could give Democrats four additional seats. While Democrats eye ten potential seat gains across Virginia and Utah, Republicans are pushing for rapid redistricting changes to protect their own advantages held in states like Texas and Ohio. FOX News Sunday anchor Shannon Bream joins the Rundown to explain why this "one-upping" strategy is leaving both parties frustrated, and the courts scrambling to define what a "compact" district actually looks like. The legal and therapeutic status of ibogaine, a Schedule 1 controlled substance, is facing a historic shift as new federal actions aim to fast-track research into psychedelics for treating veteran trauma. Veteran and No Fallen Heroes Foundation founder Whiz Buckley joins to discuss his experience using the West African compound to heal from alcoholism & PTSD, the significance of the recent presidential executive order, and his efforts to provide radical healing alternatives to the pharmaceutical approach of the VA. PLUS, commentary by Jimmy Failla, host of FOX News Saturday Night and FOX News Radio’s FOX Across America. PHOTO CREDIT: ASSOCIATED PRESS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Abby Hornacek. I'm Ben Dominic. I'm Dana Perino, and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:08.1	Friday, April 24th, 2026. I'm Jessica Rosenthal. Potential Democratic gains in the number of
0:14.4	blue-leaning house seats is being challenged as Republicans push a red state to make changes quickly
0:19.5	before the midterms to boost their chances this fall.
0:22.2	There are other concerns and allegations about how this went down that Democrats just didn't
0:26.9	simply follow the rules of the protocol. So while they're celebrating a big win there for redistricting
0:32.4	in Virginia, that fight I would say is not over yet. We speak with Fox News Sunday anchor Shannon Breen.
0:37.8	I'm Lisa Brady.
0:39.3	President Trump opens the door to faster research and potential approval of psychedelic treatments,
0:44.9	which opponents call dangerous, but some veterans say have already saved lives.
0:49.3	There are so many different ways to get better, but I tell people radical trauma might need radical healing.
0:57.5	And these compounds could definitely be looked at as potentially radical healing.
1:02.0	And I'm Jimmy Fela. I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:10.4	This week, Virginia voters passed a constitutional amendment temporarily allowing Democratic lawmakers
1:15.3	to redraw the state's congressional lines to give Democrats a better chance of gaining four more seats
1:20.6	in this year's midterms. GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked if Florida Republicans should now
1:25.5	counter with yet more redistricting.
1:32.1	Absolutely. Florida has the right and the intention to do it, and my view is that they should.
1:34.3	House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffrey said Wednesday,
1:38.1	if Republicans go down the road of a DeSantis dummymander, as he put it,
1:42.4	Florida Republicans will find themselves in the same situation as Texas Republicans,
1:45.6	who he says have no chance of picking up five seats.
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