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此次公投可能让民主党在中期选举前拿下弗吉尼亚州国会代表团10比1的优势
作者：保罗·斯坦豪瑟 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年4月22日美国东部时间下午12:32
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共和党在弗吉尼亚州这场事关重大的国会选区重划公投中以微弱劣势落败后，纷纷互相指责。此次公投可能会让民主党在今年中期选举争夺众议院多数席位的战役中获得重大助力。
尽管共和党在筹款和开支上以近乎三比一的差距落后于民主党，但他们险些挫败这项 ballot 提案。该提案将让由民主党控制的弗吉尼亚州议会——而非该州目前的无党派委员会——拥有临时选区重划权，直至2030年大选。
周二公投的通过可能会让民主党在弗吉尼亚州国会代表团中占据10比1的优势，高于目前的6比5。此次公投紧随唐纳德·特朗普总统过去一年在共和党领导的州推动罕见但并非闻所未闻的中期选区重划之后，目前仍面临州最高法院的挑战。但如果它能通过法律障碍，民主党将能在中期选举前额外拿下4个倾向左翼的美国众议院席位，从而努力从目前以微弱优势掌控众议院的共和党手中夺回控制权。
曾带头反对该公投提案的弗吉尼亚州前州长格伦·扬金承认了双方的开支差距，他在投票前一晚的集会上告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“他们的开支是我们的三倍。他们筹集了超过7000万美元。但即便如此，选举结果依然胶着。”
民主党在弗吉尼亚州国会选区重划对决中险胜
弗吉尼亚州前州长格伦·扬金于2026年4月11日周六在弗吉尼亚州布里奇沃特举行的“弗吉尼亚人支持公平地图”集会上发表讲话。弗吉尼亚州选民将就是否重划弗吉尼亚州国会选区以制衡得克萨斯州的选区重划进行投票。（比尔·克拉克/CQ-滚呼公司 via 盖蒂图片社）
一些共和党人对未能获得更多援助感到沮丧。
一位要求匿名以便畅所欲言的弗吉尼亚州共和党策略师告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“我们没有获得击败公投提案所需的援助。全国共和党本可以也本应该做得更多。”
另一位同样要求匿名的弗吉尼亚州共和党顾问表示：“令人有些意外的是，前期没有投入更多资金。因为一旦你剥开提案措辞的表层，不再提及特朗普，‘支持’阵营就一无所有了。”
“如果我们有更多资金用于宣传教育，我认为我们可以争取到更多摇摆选民。而且毫无疑问，如果我们能开展资金充足的拉票活动，动员弗吉尼亚州西南部的低投票率选民，结合积极的实地宣传、短信和直邮攻势，我们本可能获胜。”
弗吉尼亚州众议院少数党领袖特里·基尔戈尔周三对记者表示：“我认为他们本应该投入更多资金。只要再多投入一两千万美元，我们就能掌握主动权。”
尽管特朗普在公投选举前夜举办了线上集会，但一些人也将矛头指向了这位总统及其团队。
另一位要求匿名以便直言不讳的共和党策略师表示：“胜者有千百个父亲，败者却是孤儿。届时肯定会有大量甩锅和指责，讨论为何这次行动未能成功。”
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弗吉尼亚州州长阿比盖尔·斯潘伯格于2026年4月18日在弗吉尼亚州伍德布里奇举行的“弗吉尼亚人支持公平选举”拉票活动中发表讲话。（格雷姆·斯隆/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
这位策略师强调：“归根结底，如果你是白宫团队，去年就开启了这场选区重划之战，那么如果这是你如此微弱的众议院多数席位的核心议题，你就必须确保为身边所有盟友提供完成战斗所需的资源。”
但一位与弗吉尼亚州反对公投的共和党团队关系密切的策略师并不认同这一观点，他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“我们从共和党生态系统中获得了大量援助……我们从各方都得到了帮助。”
这位策略师还驳斥了共和党如果投入更多资金就能挫败公投提案的说法。在提及推动公投获胜的团队时，他表示：“他们只会筹集更多资金。民主党向来如此。”
在提及特朗普时，这位策略师表示：“如果总统能立刻参与进来，整个辩论就会围绕这位总统展开，而他在2024年总统选举中曾在该州失利……我们的目标是让这场选举尽可能聚焦弗吉尼亚本地。而民主党则试图让选举尽可能多地围绕总统展开。”
当被问及共和党是否提供了足够援助时，全国共和党国会委员会主席、北卡罗来纳州众议员理查德·哈德森周三对记者表示：“我们团队 collectively 投入了大量资金，我们拿下了一半的选票。”
哈德森指出，与特朗普2024年总统选举在弗吉尼亚州以近6个百分点的劣势落败相比，这次的得票率表现更好。
共和党全国委员会（RNC）不仅向弗吉尼亚州共和党提供了援助，还向反对公投的共和党团体提供了支持。共和党全国委员会还向弗吉尼亚州派遣了现场工作人员。
共和党全国委员会全国新闻发言人基尔斯滕·佩尔斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“这份地图是违宪的党派权力攫取行为，旨在剥夺数百万选民的选举权，并改变选举场地的倾斜方向。”
佩尔斯补充道：“共和党全国委员会将继续在法庭上推进这场斗争，保护弗吉尼亚州选民，确保整个联邦都能实现公平代表权。”
弗吉尼亚州是特朗普与共和党和民主党在国会选区重划问题上展开激烈较量的战场。
为了避免重蹈他首任白宫任期内的覆辙——当时民主党在2018年中期选举中夺回众议院多数席位——特朗普一年前首次提出了罕见但并非闻所未闻的中期国会选区重划构想。
得克萨斯州和加利福尼亚州是首批在选区重划问题上爆发重大对决的州，俄亥俄州、密苏里州、北卡罗来纳州、印第安纳州和犹他州也卷入其中。
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佛罗里达州共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯已召集州议会特别会议，于2026年4月28日开始召开会议，处理国会选区重划事宜。（里奇· Pope/奥兰多哨兵报/论坛新闻服务 via 盖蒂图片社）
如今，焦点转向了佛罗里达州。
弗吉尼亚州资深共和党策略师马特·戈尔曼告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，互相指责完全毫无意义。“事实是，我们必须为下一场战斗做好准备，那就是佛罗里达州的战斗。”
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连任两届的佛罗里达州共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯和共和党主导的州议员希望在下周启动的立法特别会议期间，通过选区重划举措额外拿下3至5个倾向右翼的席位。
随着民主党在弗吉尼亚州获胜，德桑蒂斯面临的交付压力也越来越大。
保罗·斯坦豪瑟是驻摇摆州新罕布什尔州的政治记者，他全程报道各地竞选活动。
Virginia vote hands Democrats redistricting edge, triggers GOP blame game ahead of House fight
2026-04-22T12:32:45-04:00 / Fox News
The referendum could give Democrats a 10-1 edge in Virginia’s congressional delegation ahead of the midterms
By Paul Steinhauser Fox News
Published April 22, 2026 12:32pm EDT
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Republicans are pointing fingers after their narrow loss in Virginia’s high-stakes congressional redistricting referendum, which could give Democrats a significant boost in the battle for the House of Representatives majority in this year’s midterm elections.
Even though they were outraised and outspent by Democrats by a nearly three-to-one margin, Republicans came close to sinking the ballot initiative, which gives the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature — rather than the state’s current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election.
Tuesday’s passage of the referendum could result in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia’s congressional delegation, up from their current 6-5 edge. The referendum, which follows President Donald Trump’s push for rare but not unheard-of mid-decade redistricting in Republican-led states over the past year, still faces a challenge in the state Supreme Court. But if it survives the legal hurdles, Democrats could gain four additional left-leaning U.S. House seats ahead of the midterms as they try to win back control of the chamber from the GOP, which currently holds a razor-thin majority.
Acknowledging the spending disparity, former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who was one of the leaders of the GOP effort to sink the ballot initiative, told Fox News Digital at a rally on the eve of the vote that “they have outspent us three to one. They’ve raised over $70 million. And yet this is a close vote.”
DEMOCRATS NARROWLY WIN CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING SHOWDOWN IN VIRGINIA
Former Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin speaks at the Virginians for Fair Maps rally in Bridgewater, Va., on Saturday, April 11, 2026. Virginia voters will decide if Virginia Congressional districts will be redrawn to counter the Texas redistricting.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Some Republicans are frustrated there wasn’t more help offered.
“We didn’t get the help we needed to sink the referendum,” a Virginia-based Republican strategist who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely told Fox News Digital. “National Republicans could have and should have done more.”
Another Virginia-based Republican consultant, who was also granted anonymity, said, “It is bit shocking that there wasn’t a little bit more money spent earlier because once you peel back the top layer of the ballot language and stop Trump, the ‘yes’ campaign had nothing.”
“If we had a bit more money to educate, I think we could have won more of the persuasion bucket. And then, for sure, if we could have had a very well-funded ballot chase program to go turnout low proposition voters in southwest Virginia, a combination of aggressive field, text, and mail, we might have won.”
And Virginia House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore told reporters on Wednesday, “I think they should have put more in it. This would have, you know, for ten million or twenty million more dollars, we could have been in play.”
While Trump headlined a tele-rally on the eve of the referendum election, some fingers were also pointed towards the president and his political team.
“Victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. So there’s going to be plenty of finger pointing and plenty of blame being assigned why this didn’t work out,” another GOP strategist who also asked for anonymity to speak candidly.
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger speaks during a Virginians For Fair Elections canvassing event in Woodbridge, Va., on April 18, 2026.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The strategist emphasized that “ultimately, if you’re the White House, you started this redistricting fight last year and you better be sure that you’re giving all the people out there on your side the resources they need to finish the battle if this is going to be such a centerpiece of your historically narrow House majority.”
But a strategist with ties to the Republican team in Virginia that fought to sink the referendum disagreed, telling Fox News Digital “we got a lot of help from the Republican ecosystem… we received help from all corners.”
And the strategist shot down the idea that if Republicans had spent more money, it could have sunk the referendum. Referring to the team that pushed the referendum to victory, the strategist said “they’re just going to find more money. Democrats always do.”
And pointing to Trump, the strategist said “if the president had engaged right away, that would have made the entire debate about the president in a state that he lost in 2024….Our goal was to make this as much about Virginia as possible. Democrats tried to make it as much about the president as possible.”
Asked if the GOP did enough to help, National Republican Congressional Committee chair Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina told reporters on Wednesday, “Our team collectively made significant investments and we won half the vote.”
Hudson pointed to the margin, which was an overperformance compared to Trump’s nearly six-point defeat in Virginia in the 2024 presidential election.
The Republican National Committee(RNC) gave assistance to the Virginia GOP as well as to Republican groups fighting the referendum. And the RNC placed operatives in the field in Virginia.
RNC National Press Secretary Kiersten Pels told Fox News Digital that “this map is an unconstitutional partisan power grab designed to disenfranchise millions of voters and tilt the playing field.”
“The RNC will continue this fight in court to protect Virginia voters and ensure fair representation across the Commonwealth,” Pels added.
Virginia was the battlefield in the high-stakes fight between Trump and the GOP versus Democrats over congressional redistricting.
Aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House, when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterms, Trump a year ago first floated the idea of rare, but not unheard-of, mid-decade congressional redistricting.
Texas and California were the first major showdowns over redistricting, with Ohio, Missouri, North Carolina, Indiana, and Utah also getting into the scrum.
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Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has called a special session of the state legislature to start meeting on April 28, 2026, to handle congressional redistricting.(Rich Pope/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service/Getty Images)
Now the spotlight turns to Florida.
Matt Gorman, a veteran Republican strategist based in Virginia, told Fox News Digital that pointing fingers is absolutely useless. “The fact of the matter is we have to fight the next battle, and that’s in Florida.”
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Two-term Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and state lawmakers in the GOP-dominated legislature are hoping to pick up an additional three to five right-leaning seats through a redistricting push during a special legislative session that kicks off next week.
And with the Democrats’ victory in Virginia, pressure is growing on DeSantis to deliver.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.
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