Image: Signs in Virginia in the run-up to the referendum. Photograph: Kendall Warner/TNS/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Chris Stein of The Guardian reports: “Voters in Virginia on Tuesday approved new congressional maps intended to boost Democrats’ chances of retaking the House of Representatives, in the latest blow to Donald Trump’s effort to use mid-decade redistricting to preserve his control of Congress.

The tit-for-tat redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas’s Republican-controlled legislature to redraw that state’s congressional maps in a bid to oust as many as five Democratic House lawmakers in the November midterm elections…”

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