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that is, with Republican governors and state legislatures in the same state, to create more seats favorable to his party.
Three other blue states, California, Illinois, and Maryland, have responded in kind and are looking at ways to increase seats favorable to Democrats.
Normally, redistricting happens every 10 years after the census is taken, but that custom appears to be yet another political norm cast aside during the Trump era.
Virginia Democrats will discuss redrawing the state's congressional district maps to favor Democrats.
This follows an unusual mid-cycle partisan redistricting effort by Republicans in Texas, North Carolina, and Missouri, after President Trump called on red states with trifectas, that is, with Republican governors and state legislatures in the same state, to create more seats favorable to his party.
Three other blue states, California, Illinois, and Maryland, have responded in kind and are looking at ways to increase seats favorable to Democrats.
Normally, redistricting happens every 10 years after the census is taken, but that custom appears to be yet another political norm cast aside during the Trump era.
Virginia Democrats will discuss redrawing the state's congressional district maps to favor Democrats.
This follows an unusual mid-cycle partisan redistricting effort by Republicans in Texas, North Carolina, and Missouri, after President Trump called on red states with trifectas, that is, with Republican governors and state legislatures in the same state, to create more seats favorable to his party.
Three other blue states, California, Illinois, and Maryland, have responded in kind and are looking at ways to increase seats favorable to Democrats.
Normally, redistricting happens every 10 years after the census is taken, but that custom appears to be yet another political norm cast aside during the Trump era.
Or getting food, we'd have to choose between paying our car insurance and getting food.
At a meeting with the Secretary General of NATO, Trump said the new sanctions on Russia were tremendous and that he hoped they would help settle the war with Ukraine.
But in a move that will disappoint the Ukrainian government, Trump also ruled out sending that country long-range Tomahawk missiles.
Ukraine has been lobbying the White House to provide tomahawks, but Trump seems to have closed that door for good.
Mara Liason, NPR News, the White House.
President Trump promised to use the Department of Justice to go after his political enemies, and he's doing it.