President Donald Trump asserted without evidence that the Virginia special election approving an aggressive Democratic-leaning map of the state's 11 congressional districts was fixed against Republicans.
"A rigged election took place last night in the great Commonwealth of Virginia!" he said in an April 22 post on Truth Social.
The "yes" side on the referendum eked out a victory by three percentage points on April 21 that temporarily changes Old Dominion's boundaries for its delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Democrats currently hold a 6-to-5 edge, but under the new lines, they are poised to have an overwhelming 10-to-1 advantage. The vote was part of a larger gerrymandering arms race Trump started last year to thwart an expected "blue wave" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
In the Truth Social post, the president bemoaned how the "no" side did well on Election Day but lost after the early voting ballots were counted. Trump has long been a critic of mail-in voting and has issued a controversial executive order attempting to restrict it, despite using the voting method himself.
