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DoBW

(3,273 posts) Tue Apr 21, 2026, 08:45 PM 2 hrs ago

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Big Virginia win

Aaron Parnas reports on breaking news of Democrats winning Virginia redistricting election in major blow to Trump and Republicans, including a look at the new maps, implications for Trump, how the White House is responding, and much more!

youtube.com/watch?v=0utC...
— Lizardrath ðŸ’™ (@lizardrath.bsky.social) 2026-04-22T00:32:53.428Z

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Big Virginia win (Original Post) DoBW 2 hrs ago OP

Just remember, Trump StoolPigeon 2 hrs ago #1

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard. TomSlick 2 hrs ago #2

Huge win! mcar 2 hrs ago #3

Nice BlueNProud 1 hr ago #4

Is it going to be challenged in the Supreme Court? Baitball Blogger 1 hr ago #5

Republicans tried to challenge the CA results too fujiyamasan 1 hr ago #7

State supreme court will weigh in scipan 41 min ago #10

This shows Democrats know what's at stake Johnny2X2X 1 hr ago #6

Republicans are going to get a big lesson in FAFO. PeaceWave 1 hr ago #8

Hey Mike, you're fired! Fuck you! Initech 1 hr ago #9

StoolPigeon

(267 posts)

1. Just remember, Trump

Reply to DoBW (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 08:57 PM

2 hrs ago

Redistricting mid decade was your idea.

TomSlick

(13,058 posts)

2. For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard.

Reply to StoolPigeon (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 09:06 PM

2 hrs ago

Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4

mcar

(46,178 posts)

3. Huge win!

Reply to DoBW (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 09:06 PM

2 hrs ago

BlueNProud

(1,111 posts)

4. Nice

Reply to DoBW (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 09:25 PM

1 hr ago

Baitball Blogger

(52,519 posts)

5. Is it going to be challenged in the Supreme Court?

Reply to DoBW (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 09:27 PM

1 hr ago

And if so, why? What makes Virginia any different than Texas?

fujiyamasan

(1,891 posts)

7. Republicans tried to challenge the CA results too

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 09:36 PM

1 hr ago

It didn’t go anywhere. I can’t imagine this would either.

scipan

(3,066 posts)

10. State supreme court will weigh in

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 10:36 PM

41 min ago

I've heard that it's not expected to be overturned given that the people of Virginia have spoken.

Yeah no way scrotus has a say.

Johnny2X2X

(24,332 posts)

6. This shows Democrats know what's at stake

Reply to DoBW (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 09:29 PM

1 hr ago

And shows that the party can effectively get a complex message out.

PeaceWave

(3,635 posts)

8. Republicans are going to get a big lesson in FAFO.

Reply to DoBW (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 09:48 PM

1 hr ago

Initech

(108,972 posts)

9. Hey Mike, you're fired! Fuck you!

Reply to DoBW (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 09:53 PM

1 hr ago

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