2026-04-15T09:00:55.035Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：大卫·赖特、弗雷德里卡·舒滕
发布时间：2026年4月15日，美国东部时间上午5:00
4月3日，在弗吉尼亚州麦迪逊，一名卡车司机停车向麦迪逊县共和党委员会成员挥手致意，他们正举着标牌反对弗吉尼亚州重新划分选区的公投。
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弗吉尼亚州布里奇沃特——
塔拉·鲍曼住在弗吉尼亚州伍德斯托克的一个农场里，这座小镇坐落在谢南多厄河北岸，人口约6000人。
但根据弗吉尼亚州选民可能于下周通过的重新划分选区方案，鲍曼所在的社区将与约90英里外的费尔法克斯和麦克林等富裕的华盛顿郊区划入同一个国会选区。
这是民主党在弗吉尼亚州稀释共和党选票的全面举措的一部分，目的是帮助民主党在11月的中期选举中拿下该州11个国会众议院席位中的10个——这是去年唐纳德·特朗普在德克萨斯州引发的跨海岸重新划分选区斗争中，最新也是最后几场战役之一。
目前，弗吉尼亚州共和党人——包括鲍曼的国会议员本·克莱因——掌控着5个众议院席位，民主党人则占据6个。
“我们这里完全是农村地区，有大量农场和小企业，”鲍曼在一场由反对重新划分选区的人士组织的周末集会上难以置信地说道，“我不敢相信他们会给我派一位来自费尔法克斯的国会议员。”
周六的活动吸引了数百人来到谢南多厄山谷深处一个航空园区的机库，标志着反对该选区方案的团体在周二选举前的最后冲刺阶段，加紧动员农村选民。
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊对在场观众表示，由民主党掌控的众议院“会将国会所有委员会变成调查机构”，并弹劾唐纳德·特朗普总统。不到两年前，这个县以40个百分点的优势支持特朗普。
“你们有权力保护弗吉尼亚州的公平选区地图，真正保护国会众议院的共和党多数席位，”约翰逊说，“这一切就掌握在你们手中。”
在同一场活动中，该州前共和党州长格伦·杨金称该选区方案是一个“怪物”，会“压制并剥夺人民的声音”。
4月11日，弗吉尼亚州前州长格伦·杨金在弗吉尼亚州布里奇沃特的一场集会上发表演讲，反对弗吉尼亚州民主党提出的州重新划分选区宪法修正案。
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尽管民主党关联团体投入巨资，且该州在全国选举中日益偏向蓝色，但最近《华盛顿邮报》的一项民调显示，52%的可能选民支持此次重新划分选区的举措，这让反对者备受鼓舞。
尽管对特朗普和共和党来说赌注极高，但在这场长达数月、耗资数百万美元的重新划分选区竞选活动中，民主党在开支上远超共和党。一开始，共和党人的战略主要是试图在法庭上阻止这次公投。（一起针对重新划区的诉讼仍在州最高法院待审，该法院决定在裁决反对者提起的诉讼的是非曲直之前，允许下周的投票如期进行。）
据追踪政治广告的AdImpact数据显示，截至周一，民主党团体已在电视广告上花费超过4820万美元，呼吁对公投投“赞成”票。共和党最近几天大幅增加了广告投放力度，但在广告战中仍落后，支出约1700万美元。
据约翰逊团队透露，集会结束几小时后举行的一场约翰逊筹款活动为反对重新划分选区的运动筹集了50万美元。
但一些农村选民告诉CNN，他们既对该选区方案感到担忧，也对民主党在开支上的压倒性优势感到不安。
“除了几场这样的活动，有几个人上台演讲、到场撑场面之外，并没有什么有力的行动来抵消民主党正在做的事情，”参加约翰逊集会的哈里森堡居民迈克尔·克兰西说道。
“他们看起来就是想输掉中期选举，”克兰西在谈到共和党领导人时说道。
新选区方案将如何运作
4月2日，在弗吉尼亚州梅登的GG披萨店，一份印有弗吉尼亚州重新划分选区公投头版报道的《古奇兰公报》印刷版放在桌上，古奇兰民主党委员会成员正在举行午餐会议，讨论动员选民投票的工作。
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畸形的选区边界并非弗吉尼亚州的制图者独有，也并非某一个政党的专利。民主党占绝对优势的伊利诺伊州和深红州田纳西州的议员都分别绘制了拆分芝加哥和纳什维尔的选区地图，以获取党派优势。
去年，在特朗普的授意下，由共和党掌控的德克萨斯州州议会发起了前所未有的中期改选前重新划分选区的举措，推出了旨在拿下5个国会众议院席位的地图。加利福尼亚州随后于去年11月将一份地图提交给该州压倒性的民主党选民，以大幅抵消德克萨斯州的行动。更多州加入了这场博弈，佛罗里达州仍有可能跟进。
到目前为止，四个由共和党领导的州制定了新的选区方案，使其有机会拿下多达9个众议院席位，而民主党则有机会翻转6个席位。
在弗吉尼亚州，选民们被要求修改该州宪法，暂时暂停赋予两党委员会（而非州议员）选区绘制权的条款。选民们曾在2020年批准了两党重新划分选区修正案。
民主党希望将选区从华盛顿的自由派郊区延伸出去，深入农村地区，打造出共和党所谴责的畸形边界。例如，反对者将提议中的第7国会选区——约翰逊周六在此召集选民集会——称为“龙虾爪”，因为它像甲壳类动物的钳子一样绕过另一个选区。
代表弗吉尼亚州中部里士满地区的民主党众议员詹妮弗·麦克莱伦驳斥了有关新地图会在该州造成不公平的城乡分化的说法。
“无论你生活在城市还是农村，你都同样受到了唐纳德·特朗普及其政策的伤害，”麦克莱伦最近对记者表示，“我们有更多的共同点，我们正在为弗吉尼亚州的农村地区而战，就像我们为城市和郊区而战一样。在这次重新划分选区的公投通过后，我们会继续这么做。”
民主党称他们旨在“阻止MAGA的权力攫取”
4月11日，众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔的“弗吉尼亚人支持公平选举”集会上发表演讲，身旁是参议员马克·沃纳（左）和国会候选人汤姆·佩里洛。
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如果民主党拿下美国众议院的控制权，众议院民主党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯有望升任议长，他本周末也在弗吉尼亚州集会支持支持者。
“他们以为民主党会退缩，”杰弗里斯在里士满的一场活动中表示，“好吧，我们明确表示，我们不会退缩，我们会反击。”
“投赞成票将阻止MAGA的权力攫取，”杰弗里斯说，“投赞成票将公平竞争环境。投赞成票将阻止唐纳德·特朗普操纵中期选举的阴谋。”
周四晚，杰弗里斯将与包括弗吉尼亚州州长阿比盖尔·斯潘伯格、美国参议员马克·沃纳在内的其他顶级民主党人以及一众数字创作者一起参加虚拟集会，旨在提高投票率。
提前投票于周六结束，选举日为周二。
CNN对目前提前投票数据的分析表明，民主党在推动通过新选区方案方面占据优势。根据L2的数据，4月11日当天有近6.3万张提前现场投票，略高于去年秋季民主党横扫三个全州性职位的选举前的同日投票量。
反对该选区方案的共和党人为自己的决策辩护，并认为他们的胜算比一些观察人士认为的要好。
弗吉尼亚州共和党主席杰夫·赖尔告诉CNN，他“非常满意”共和党全国委员会给予的支持。
赖尔于2月接任州共和党主席一职，他表示，共和党全国委员会帮助资助了 ongoing的法院诉讼。他说，全国委员会还派出了8名现场工作人员在该州开展工作，帮助支持数千名反对该选区方案的共和党志愿者。
“我们认为，在选民做出决定之际，我们的信息正在得到传播，”赖尔补充道，并指出反对该选区方案的团体最近的广告支出激增。
“民主党已经投入了超过5000万美元来操纵弗吉尼亚州的国会选区地图，但正如各方都承认的那样，公投结果仍极为接近，”反对公投的团体“弗吉尼亚人支持公平地图”的竞选经理迈克·杨在给CNN的一份声明中说道。
“这绝非偶然或侥幸。”
CNN的杰夫·泽莱尼和爱德华·吴对本文亦有贡献。
Worried about the midterms, Republicans mobilize rural Virginia voters against redistricting
2026-04-15T09:00:55.035Z / CNN
By David Wright, Fredreka Schouten
PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2026, 5:00 AM ET
A truck driver stops to wave at members of the Madison County Republican Committee as they hold signs opposing the Virginia redistricting referendum, in Madison, Virginia, on April 3.
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Bridgewater, Virginia—
Tara Bowman lives on a farm in Woodstock, Virginia, a town of some 6,000 people nestled along the banks of the Shenandoah River’s North Fork.
But under a redistricting plan Virginia voters may enact next week, Bowman’s community would be in the same congressional district as wealthy Washington suburbs such as Fairfax and McLean some 90 miles away.
It’s part of a sweeping Democratic effort to dilute Republican votes across Virginia to help Democrats win 10 of the state’s 11 US House seats in November’s midterm elections – the latest and one of the last remaining fights in the coast-to-coast redistricting battle that President Donald Trump set off last year in Texas.
Currently, Virginia Republicans – including Bowman’s congressman, Rep. Ben Cline – hold five House seats and Democrats six.
“We’re 100% rural. We have lots of farming, small business,” an incredulous Bowman said at a weekend rally organized by redistricting opponents. “I can’t believe they’re gonna give me a congressman from Fairfax.”
Saturday’s event, which drew hundreds to a hangar in an aviation park deep in the Shenandoah Valley, marked an intensifying campaign by groups opposed to the map to mobilize rural voters in the final sprint to Tuesday’s election.
A Democratic-controlled House “would turn all the committees of Congress into investigative bodies” and impeach President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson told the audience, assembled in a county that supported Trump by a 40-point margin less than two years ago.
“You have the power to protect fair maps in Virginia and to protect, truly, the entire House Republican majority in the Congress,” Johnson said. “That’s in your hands right now.”
At the same event, Glenn Youngkin, the state’s Republican former governor, called the map a “monstrosity” that would “overwhelm and overcome the voice of the people.”
Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during a campaign rally in opposition to Virginia Democrats’ proposed state redistricting constitutional amendment in Bridgewater, Virginia, on April 11.
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Opponents are heartened by a recent Washington Post poll that shows 52% of likely voters support the redistricting effort, despite heavy spending by Democratic-aligned groups and the state’s increasingly blue tint in national elections.
Despite the sky-high stakes for Trump and Republicans, however, Democrats have swamped Republicans in spending throughout the monthslong, multimillion-dollar redistricting campaign. Early on, the Republicans’ strategy focused heavily on trying to block the referendum in court. (A case over the redraw is still pending before the state Supreme Court, which opted to let next week’s vote proceed before deciding the merits of a lawsuit brought by opponents.)
As of Monday, Democratic groups had spent more than $48.2 million on the airwaves, urging a “yes” vote on the referendum, according to AdImpact, which tracks political advertising. Republicans have dramatically increased their advertising activity in recent days, but still lag in the ad wars, spending about $17 million.
A Johnson fundraiser held a few hours after the rally brought in $500,000 for the anti-redistricting effort, according to his team.
But some rural voters told CNN they were alarmed both by the map and the Democrats’ lopsided spending advantage.
“Other than a couple of shows like this with a few people, giving speeches, showing up, there has not been a significant push to offset what the Democrats are doing,” said Michael Clancy, a resident of Harrisonburg, who attended the Johnson rally.
“It seems like they want to lose the midterms,” Clancy said of Republican leaders.
How the new map would work
A print edition of the Goochland Gazette, with a front page story on the Virginia redistricting referendum, lies on a table at GG’s Pizza in Maiden, Virginia, on April 2, as members of the Goochland Democratic Committee hold a lunch meeting on get-out-the-vote efforts.
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Misshapen district boundaries are not unique to Virginia mapmakers nor to one political party. Lawmakers in heavily Democratic Illinois and deep-red Tennessee have each drawn maps that carve up Chicago and Nashville, respectively, for partisan advantage.
Texas’ GOP-controlled legislature kicked off an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting gambit at Trump’s behest last year with a map aimed at flipping five US House seats. California responded by putting a map to the state’s overwhelmingly Democratic electorate last November that seeks to largely offset Texas’ move. More states have entered the fray and Florida still could.
So far, four Republican-led states have crafted new maps that give their party the opportunity to flip as many as nine House seats while Democrats have the chance of flipping six.
In Virginia, voters are being asked to amend the state’s constitution and temporarily suspend a provision that gives a bipartisan commission – rather than state legislators – map-drawing authority. Voters approved the bipartisan redistricting amendment in 2020.
Democrats want to snake districts out from Washington’s liberal suburbs, deep into rural territory, creating misshapen boundaries that Republicans have disparaged. For instance, opponents dubbed the proposed 7th Congressional District – where Johnson rallied voters Saturday – the “lobster claw” because it curves around another district like the pincers of a crustacean.
Democratic Rep. Jennifer McClellan, who represents the Richmond area in central Virginia, dismissed suggestions that the new maps would create an unfair urban-rural divide across the commonwealth.
“Whether you are in an urban city or you are in a rural area, you have equally been hurt by Donald Trump and his policies,” McClellan told reporters recently. “We have more in common than not, and we are fighting for rural Virginia just like we are fighting for urban and suburban Virginia. We will continue to do that after this redistricting referendum passes.”
Democrats say they want to ‘stop the MAGA power grab’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is flanked by Sen. Mark Warner, left, and congressional candidate Tom Perriello, as Jeffries speaks at the Virginians for Fair Elections rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on April 11.
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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is poised to ascend to the speakership if his party flips control of the US House, also spent the weekend in Virginia rallying supporters.
“They thought that Democrats were going to step back,” Jeffries said at an event in Richmond. “Well, we’re making clear we’re not here to step back, we’re here to fight back.”
“Voting yes will stop the MAGA power grab,” Jeffries said. “Voting yes will level the playing field. Voting yes will stop Donald Trump’s scheme to rig the midterm elections.”
On Thursday night, Jeffries will join other top Democrats, including Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, and US Sen. Mark Warner, and a slew of digital creators for a virtual rally aimed at boosting turnout.
Early voting ends Saturday. Election Day is Tuesday.
Data analyzed by CNN of the early vote so far suggests Democrats have an advantage in their push to enact the new map. Nearly 63,000 early in-person votes were cast on April 11, according to data from L2, slightly higher than the equivalent day ahead of last fall’s election in which Democrats swept all three statewide offices.
Republicans involved in the campaign against the map defended their decision-making and argue their chances are better than some observers think.
Virginia Republican Party Chairman Jeff Ryer told CNN that he’s “very happy” with the support he’s received from the Republican National Committee.
The RNC has helped finance ongoing court challenges, said Ryer, who took over the state party in February. The national party also has eight field staff working in the state, helping support thousands of GOP volunteers fighting the map, he said.
“We feel as though we’re getting our message out when voters are making up their minds,” Ryer added, pointing to the recent surge in spending by groups opposed the map.
“The Democrats have deployed over $50 million to rig Virginia’s Congressional maps and yet the referendum is extremely close, as all sides acknowledge,” Mike Young, campaign manager of the anti-referendum group Virginians for Fair Maps, said in a statement to CNN.
“That didn’t happen by accident or dumb luck.”
CNN’s Jeff Zeleny and Edward Wu contributed to this report.
