Virginia may very well be the following domino to fall in Trump’s epic backfire on rigging the midterm election.
Donald Trump the “steady genius” who got here up the scheme to maintain the Home of Representatives beneath Republican management by getting crimson states to redraw their maps is teaming up along with his Minion #1, Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson to attempt to get Republicans out to the polls to vote in an election in Virginia tomorrow that would internet Democrats an extra 4 Home seats in November.
Axios’s Alex Isenstadt posted on X that Trump and Johnson are attempting to rally Republican voters, “Trump and Mike Johnson will maintain a tele-rally with Virginia supporters at 7 pm forward of tomorrow’s redistricting vote, per an individual acquainted.”
Trump is seemingly so lazy that they couldn’t really get him to go maintain a rally in Virginia to get out the vote, however there are a few vital components as to why.
Donald Trump doesn’t need to be blamed for the redistricting loss if the brand new map passes, so he’ll keep distant.
Democrats needed to have been hoping that Trump would present up within the state, as a result of he’s deeply despised in Virginia.
Trump DOGE layoffs value Virginia 23,500 jobs, however the financial affect was a lot worse.
On common, every federal authorities worker earns about 1.6 occasions the common non-public sector worker,” stated Bob McNab, who chairs the division of economics at Previous Dominion College. “If we embody advantages, that ratio climbs to 2. So, Virginia dropping 23,500 federal authorities jobs final yr is roughly the equal of dropping 47,000 non-public sector jobs.”
Because it stands, it appears to be like like Trump and Johnson have an uphill battle in Virginia.
