CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten did not mince words regarding the implications of Virginia’s new redistricting plan on the Republican Party.
On Tuesday, voters in Virginia approved a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment to dramatically redraw the state’s congressional map ahead of the midterm elections this fall.
The move could hand Democrats an additional four congressional seats that Republicans currently hold, and has been widely interpreted as a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s administration ― a point which Enten reiterated on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” late Tuesday.
Democrats, he said, are now “going to gerrymander this state rotten. They’re basically gonna lock Republicans out of power in a state where Donald Trump got 46% of the vote back in 2024.”
“This vote in Virginia means so very much,” he added, “and that’s why all that money was spent on it, my goodness gracious.”
