Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said President Donald Trump was responsible for a Democratic win in Virginia on Tuesday. She claimed that the president’s “betrayals” of parts of the MAGA movement would cause “devastating consequences in the midterms.”
Voters in Virginia approved a new mid-decade redistricting map by a small margin.
This map could help Democrats win in ten out of eleven House districts in the state. The constitutional amendment lets the Democratic-controlled state legislature create a new districting plan without needing the redistricting commission’s approval.
Greene said Republicans are losing support in the “once red state” because Trump and the GOP failed to keep their promises.
“Virginia just voted to redraw House district lines, changing the state from 6D-5R to 10D-1R, removing 4 Republican seats just by changing the map,” she said on X. “A once red state is becoming one of the bluest states because people are not supporting Republicans anymore.”
She also listed Trump’s war with Iran, releasing documents about Jeffrey Epstein, and the role of money in the Republican Party as reasons for the “revolt on the right.”
Greene, who used to be a strong Trump supporter, has been critical of him on these issues for a long time.
Her disagreements with Trump started when she pushed to release the Epstein files. Things got worse recently when Trump threatened to destroy “the whole civilization” of Iran, and Greene called for the 25th Amendment to be used against him. After Trump posted a now-deleted image of himself as Jesus, Greene called the post “blasphemy.”
Virginia’s referendum is the latest example of redistricting changes across several states after Trump pushed Republicans in Texas to redraw the state’s congressional map last summer.
“I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know, and we are entitled to five more seats,” Trump said on CNBC’s Squawk Box.
That statement, along with Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signing a new map in Texas, led to a lot of redistricting efforts from both parties.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) led a successful campaign to counteract Texas’s redistricting, adding five possible Democratic seats to cancel out five likely Republican seats in Texas.
Some other states added a likely GOP seat in Missouri and North Carolina, with two possible seats in Ohio.
Trump’s redistricting plan was rejected by Republican senators in Indiana, and a state judge in Utah ruled against a map proposed by the state GOP-controlled legislature. Florida is still trying to pass its own new map, with lawmakers set to vote on the plan in the next few weeks.
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