2026-04-21 20:57:50 EDT / 福克斯新闻频道
以格伦·杨金为首的共和党人称该选区地图为“违宪的权力攫取”，并誓言将继续提起法律诉讼
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发布时间：2026年4月21日 美国东部时间晚上8:57 | 更新时间：2026年4月21日 美国东部时间晚上9:00
杨金、米亚雷斯做最后努力，挫败民主党支持的“权力攫取”式重划选区公投
前弗吉尼亚州州长格伦·杨金与前州总检察长杰森·米亚雷斯在国会重划选区公投选举前夕接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访。
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据美联社美国东部时间晚上8:49报道，民主党周二取得重大胜利，弗吉尼亚州选民以微弱优势通过一项国会重划选区公投，这将为民主党在今年中期选举争夺美国众议院多数席位的斗争中带来重大助力。
这项 ballot 措施将使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——拥有临时重划选区的权力，直至2030年选举。这可能使民主党在弗吉尼亚州国会代表团中的优势从目前的6比5扩大到10比1。
此次公投紧随唐纳德·特朗普总统推动共和党领导的州进行罕见但并非闻所未闻的中期重划选区之后，将为民主党额外增加4个倾向民主党的美国众议院席位，当前民主党正试图从目前席位极其微弱的共和党手中夺回众议院控制权。
民主党州长阿比盖尔·斯潘伯格在很大程度上成为本党推动通过该 ballot 倡议的标志性人物，她在一份声明中表示：“弗吉尼亚州选民已经发声，今晚他们批准了一项临时措施，以对抗一位声称自己‘有权’在国会获得更多共和党席位的总统。”
“弗吉尼亚人目睹其他州在没有选民参与的情况下顺从了那些要求——我们拒绝让这种情况发生。我们用正确的方式做出了回应：通过投票箱，”这位州长说道。
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民主党全国委员会主席肯·马丁强调，“弗吉尼亚人拒绝让特朗普玩弄美国人公平代表权的权利”。
但全国共和党国会委员会主席、北卡罗来纳州众议员理查德·哈德森表示，“弗吉尼亚州民主党人无法重写现实。此次微弱优势的投票结果再次证明，弗吉尼亚州是一个紫色州，不应由极端党派划分选区来代表。这正是为什么已经两次阻止这项恶劣权力攫取的法院应该维护弗吉尼亚州法律的原因。”
哈德森预测，“即使在新的选区地图下，共和党仍将保持多数席位，这基于我们清理民主党遗留问题的政绩，以及用于起诉民主党失误的巨额竞选资金”。
弗吉尼亚州共和党主席杰夫·赖尔在一份声明中表示：“我知道我们对今晚的结果感到失望。显然，有足够多的弗吉尼亚人相信民主党在选票上使用的明显不诚实的措辞，使我们联邦成为全国党派划分选区最严重的州。”
此次独立的春季公投标志着数月来的政治交锋和法庭斗争、创纪录的提前投票人数以及大量全国性关注和资金投入到这场投票对决中落下帷幕。
尽管多数选民支持该 ballot 倡议，但它仍面临法律挑战。
弗吉尼亚州最高法院在下级法院驳回该公投后，允许其推进。但由共和党全国委员会、全国共和党国会委员会和州共和党提起的针对该公投的法律挑战仍未解决，仍在弗吉尼亚州最高法院审理中。
前共和党州长格伦·杨金是共和党反对民主党支持的公投的领导人之一，他于周二晚在社交媒体上“敦促弗吉尼亚州最高法院否决这一违宪程序，该程序将剥夺数百万弗吉尼亚人的选举权”。
杨金在选举前夕于北弗吉尼亚州的最后一场竞选活动中告诉支持者，“这是美国最党派化的选区地图”。
他指责民主党人：“他们的所作所为是不道德的。”
与杨金一同在全州奔波领导共和党反对该 ballot 倡议的是前弗吉尼亚州总检察长杰森·米亚雷斯，他对人群表示，民主党的地图是“在权力中沉醉时才会绘制的”。
众议院的争夺将聚焦弗吉尼亚州，法院批准高风险重划选区投票
在最终选举前夕集会前接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，米亚雷斯指责“民主党想要剥夺数百万弗吉尼亚人的声音，对该州进行党派选区划分”。
杨金指出两人近几周的不懈竞选活动时表示：“我们一遍又一遍听到的是，弗吉尼亚人想要公平的选区地图。而‘支持’票代表的正是不公平的地图。”
两位共和党人重申，该公投是斯潘伯格和控制州议会的民主党人“违宪的权力攫取”。
当杨金和米亚雷斯在利斯堡发表讲话时，特朗普在弗吉尼亚州一档热门保守派脱口秀节目中发表讲话，随后与众议院议长、路易斯安那州共和党人迈克·约翰逊一同敦促选民否决该公投。
特朗普针对国会民主党人警告称：“如果他们获得这些额外席位，他们将在联邦层面做出改变。”
斯潘伯格在关键选举前面临“诱饵转换”反弹
民主党反驳称，重新划分选区地图是必要举措，以平衡其他州在特朗普推动下由共和党实施的党派选区划分。
“通过投‘支持’票，你有机会做一件重要的事——不仅是为了联邦，也是为了我们整个国家，”前总统巴拉克·奥巴马在提前投票最后一天前夕发布的视频中说道。“通过投‘支持’票，你可以反击共和党人试图在中期选举中为自己谋取不公平优势的行为。”
“通过投‘支持’票，你可以采取临时措施来平衡竞争环境。我们指望你们。”
奥巴马的这段视频是这位前总统为该公投做出的最新努力。他此前曾出现在“弗吉尼亚人支持公平选举”——一个支持通过该 ballot 倡议的民主党关联组织——发布的广告中。
奥巴马全力投入可能影响中期选举的高风险公投
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奥巴马敦促弗吉尼亚人在关键重划选区投票中投“支持”票
但反对重划选区的共和党主导组织“弗吉尼亚人支持公平地图”在反对该公投的广告中，使用了奥巴马过去反对政治党派选区划分的言论。
“正是因为政治党派选区划分等问题，我们两党之间的分歧越来越大，找到共同点也越来越难，”该广告中展示的这位前总统的旧片段说道。
共和党人援引民主党参议员蒂姆·凯恩的言论进行抨击，凯恩曾是弗吉尼亚州州长和前民主党全国委员会主席，他在周末接受“福克斯新闻周日”采访时承认，新的选区地图并不代表弗吉尼亚州的党派构成。
“90%的弗吉尼亚人不是民主党人，这是事实，”凯恩说道。
但凯恩补充道：“大约100%的弗吉尼亚人希望选举结果得到尊重。”
索罗斯支持的组织是向弗吉尼亚州党派选区划分活动投入巨额资金的自由派组织之一
共和党人还将矛头对准斯潘伯格，她在去年11月的州长选举中以超过15个百分点的优势获胜，民主党人也同时拿下了副州长和总检察长职位。
“阿比盖尔·斯潘伯格去年夏天告诉所有人她对重划选区不感兴趣，但她签署的第一项法案就是允许弗吉尼亚州进行党派选区划分的法案。弗吉尼亚人不喜欢这一点，这就是为什么无党派人士和许多民主党人也投反对票的原因，”杨金告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
几分钟后，杨金对人群表示，斯潘伯格“试图剥夺数百万、数百万弗吉尼亚人的选举权”。
自两周前《华盛顿邮报》的一项民调显示，这位新州长的支持率刚过及格线，成为20年来新弗吉尼亚州州长中支持率最低的一位以来，共和党人就一直将重划选区的火力对准斯潘伯格。
“她是一位不受欢迎的州长，推行不受欢迎的议程，还对选民撒谎，”米亚雷斯指责道。
米亚雷斯和其他共和党高层指责斯潘伯格使用“诱饵转换”手段。
斯潘伯格在支持该公投的广告中表示，她支持该举措是因为“这直接回应了其他州的决定，以及一位在今年中期选举前声称自己‘有权’获得更多共和党席位的总统。我们的做法不同。这是临时的。它将在未来保留弗吉尼亚州公平的重划选区程序。”
支持重划选区的组织在筹款和支出上远超反对该公投的组织，“弗吉尼亚人支持公平选举”的筹款额大约是“弗吉尼亚人支持公平地图”的三倍。双方筹集的大部分资金来自所谓的“暗钱”，即无需披露捐赠者身份的501(c)(4)类非营利公共政策组织。
尽管民主党拥有资金优势，但近期民调显示，在周六结束的提前投票人数激增的情况下，支持该 ballot 倡议的比例仅略高于反对比例。
“他们的支出是我们的三倍。他们筹集了超过7000万美元。然而这次投票结果仍十分接近，”杨金说道。
针对支持该公投的广告，杨金表示弗吉尼亚人“不会相信这些虚假陈述。他们不会相信电视上的谎言。他们会自己了解情况，明白投反对票是为了公平的选区地图，投支持票则是为了美国党派划分最严重的选区地图。”
米亚雷斯强调，民主党“花钱比我们多，但我们掌握着真相”。
弗吉尼亚州是特朗普与共和党、民主党之间围绕国会重划选区的高风险斗争的最新战场。
为防止其第一任白宫任期内民主党在2018年中期选举中夺回众议院多数席位的情况重演，特朗普去年春天首次提出了罕见但并非闻所未闻的中期国会重划选区的想法。
其目标很简单：在红色州重新绘制国会选区地图，以扩大共和党脆弱的众议院多数席位优势，从而在中期选举中保住控制权——因为在野党在传统上面临政治逆风，会丢失席位。
去年夏天被记者问及在全国范围内增加倾向共和党的众议院席位的计划时，总统表示：“得克萨斯州将是最大的赢家。那将增加5个席位。”
得克萨斯州共和党州长格雷格·阿博特召集共和党主导的州议会特别会议，通过新的选区地图。
但民主党州议员为阻挠重划选区法案的通过，逃离得克萨斯州长达两周，破坏了议事法定人数，这一行为鼓舞了全国范围内的民主党人。
带头反对特朗普重划选区计划的包括加利福尼亚州民主党州长加文·纽瑟姆。
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去年11月，加利福尼亚州选民压倒性通过了50号提案，该提案暂时搁置了该州倾向左翼的无党派重划选区委员会的权力，将绘制国会选区地图的权力交还给民主党主导的州议会。
这预计将在加利福尼亚州增加5个倾向民主党的国会选区，以抵消得克萨斯州重划选区的举动。
这场斗争迅速蔓延至得克萨斯州和加利福尼亚州以外地区。
共和党控制的密苏里州和俄亥俄州，以及共和党主导议会的摇摆州北卡罗来纳州，都按照总统的推动绘制了新的选区地图。
给共和党带来打击的是，犹他州一名地区法官去年年底否决了该州共和党主导议会绘制的国会选区地图，转而批准了另一套方案，将在中期选举前创建一个倾向民主党的选区。
印第安纳州参议院的共和党人去年12月违抗特朗普，否决了州众议院通过的重划选区法案。印第安纳州议会的这场僵局吸引了大量全国关注。
佛罗里达州紧随其后。
两届共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯和共和党主导的州议会希望在4月28日启动的特别立法会议期间，通过重划选区举措额外增加3至5个倾向共和党的席位。
笼罩在重划选区斗争上空的是最高法院，预计该院将对“路易斯安那州诉卡莱斯”案作出裁决，这一关键案件可能导致《选举权法案》的一项关键条款被推翻。
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如果最高法院保守派胜诉，可能导致全国范围内重新绘制大量少数族裔占多数的选区，这将极大有利于共和党。
但法院何时作出裁决以及实际裁决内容仍悬而未决。
保罗·施坦豪泽是驻摇摆州新罕布什尔州的政治记者，全程报道全国竞选活动。
Democrats win Virginia redistricting fight, threatening Republican House majority
2026-04-21 20:57:50 EDT / Fox News
Republicans led by Glenn Youngkin called the maps an ‘unconstitutional power grab’ and vow continued legal challenges
By Paul Steinhauser , Jasmine Baehr , Charles Creitz Fox News
Published April 21, 2026 8:57pm EDT | Updated April 21, 2026 9:00pm EDT
Youngkin, Miyares, make final push to defeat Democrat-backed ‘power grab’ redistricting referendum
Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and former state Attorney Gen. Jason Miyares speak with Fox News Digital on the eve of congressional redistricting ballot initiative election.
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Democrats scored a major victory Tuesday when Virginia voters narrowly passed a congressional redistricting referendum that could give the party a significant boost in the battle for the U.S. House of Representatives majority in this year’s midterm elections, The Associated Press reported at 8:49 p.m. ET.
The ballot measure gives the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature — rather than the state’s current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election. It 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, would give the Democrats four additional left-leaning U.S. House seats ahead of the midterms as the party tries to win back control of the chamber from the GOP, which currently holds a razor-thin majority.
Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who in many ways became the face of her party’s push to pass the ballot initiative, said in a statement that “Virginia voters have spoken, and tonight they approved a temporary measure to push back against a President who claims he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress.”
“Virginians watched other states go along with those demands without voter input — and we refused to let that stand. We responded the right way: at the ballot box,” the governor said.
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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)
And Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin emphasized that “Virginians refused to let Trump play games with Americans’ right to fair representation.”
But Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said that “Virginia Democrats can’t redraw reality. This close margin reinforces that Virginia is a purple state that shouldn’t be represented by a severe partisan gerrymander. That’s exactly why the courts, who have already ruled twice to block this egregious power grab, should uphold Virginia law.”
And Hudson predicted, “Even under this map, Republicans will hold our majority based on our record cleaning up Democrats’ mess and a historic war chest to litigate the Democrats’ failures.”
Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Jeff Ryer said in a statement, “I know we are disappointed by tonight’s result. Evidently, a sufficient number of Virginians trusted the blatantly dishonest language the Democrats placed on the ballot to make our Commonwealth the most severely gerrymandered state in the nation.”
The standalone spring referendum capped months of political crossfire and court battles, sky-high early voting turnout and tons of national attention and money poured into the ballot box showdown.
Even though a majority of voters gave the ballot initiative a thumbs-up, it still faces legal challenges.
The Supreme Court of Virginia allowed the referendum to move forward after a lower court struck it down. But legal challenges to the referendum, filed in part by the Republican National Committee, the NRCC and the state GOP, remain unresolved and are still before Virginia’s highest court.
Former Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who was one of the leaders of the GOP effort against the Democrat-backed referendum, took to social media on Tuesday night to “urge the Virginia Supreme Court to rule against this unconstitutional process that will disenfranchise millions of Virginians.”
Youngkin, at his final campaign stop in northern Virginia on the eve of the election, told supporters “it’s the most partisan map in America.”
Pointing to the Democrats, Youngkin charged, “What they are doing is immoral.”
Teaming up with Youngkin to crisscross the state in leading the GOP opposition to the ballot initiative was former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, who told the crowd the Democrats’ map is one that “you draw when you’re drunk with power.”
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Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, right, and former state Attorney General Jason Miyares lead a chant of “no” as they lead Republican efforts to defeat a Democrat-backed congressional redistricting referendum April 20, 2026, in Leesburg, Va.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
Speaking with Fox News Digital ahead of their final election eve rally, Miyares charged that “Democrats want to take away the voices of millions of Virginians and gerrymander the state.”
Youngkin, pointing to the duo’s relentless campaigning in recent weeks, said, “What we’re hearing over and over and over again is Virginians want fair maps. And what the yes vote represents are unfair maps.”
And the two Republicans reiterated their charge that the referendum was an “unconstitutional power grab” by Spanberger and the Democrats who control the state legislature.
As Youngkin and Miyares spoke in Leesburg, Trump took to the airwaves on a popular Virginia-based conservative talk show and later teamed up with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to urge voters to defeat the referendum.
Pointing to congressional Democrats, Trump warned that “if they get these additional seats, they’re going to be making changes at the federal level.”
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President Donald Trump headlined a tele town hall on the eve of Virginia’s congressional redistricting referendum urging voters to cast a ballot against the initiative.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Democrats countered that the redrawing of the maps was a necessary step to balance partisan gerrymandering already implemented by Republicans in other states at Trump’s urging.
“By voting yes, you have the chance to do something important — not just for the commonwealth, but for our entire country,” former President Barack Obama said in a video released Friday on the eve of the final day of early voting. “By voting yes, you can push back against the Republicans trying to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterms.
“By voting yes, you can take a temporary step to level the playing field. And we’re counting on you.”
The video by Obama was the former president’s latest effort for the referendum. He had previously appeared in ads released by Virginians for Fair Elections, the Democrat-aligned group working to pass the ballot initiative.
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Obama urges Virginians to vote ‘yes’ in crucial redistricting vote
But Virginians for Fair Maps, the leading Republican-aligned group opposing redistricting, used past comments by Obama against political gerrymandering in its ads opposing the referendum.
“Because of things like political gerrymandering, our parties have moved further and further apart, and it’s harder and harder to find common ground,” the former president said in an old clip showcased in the spot.
Republicans pointed to comments from Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, a former Virginia governor and former chair of the Democratic National Committee, who acknowledged over the weekend in a “Fox News Sunday” interview that the new maps don’t represent Virginia’s partisan breakdown.
“Ninety percent of Virginians are not Democrats, that’s true,” Kaine said.
But Kaine added that “about 100% of Virginians want election results to be respected.”
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And Republicans took aim at Spanberger, who won November’s gubernatorial election by over 15 points as Democrats also captured the lieutenant governor and attorney general offices.
“Abigail Spanberger told everybody last summer that she had no interest in redistricting, and then the first bill she signs is a bill to enable the gerrymandering of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginians don’t like this and that’s why independents and a lot of Democrats are voting no too,” Youngkin told Fox News Digital.
Minutes later, Youngkin told the crowd that Spanberger is “trying to disenfranchise millions, millions of Virginians.”
Republicans trained their redistricting firepower on Spanberger since a poll two weeks ago by The Washington Post indicated that the new governor’s approval rating was barely above water, with the highest unfavorable rating for a new Virginia governor in two decades.
“She’s an unpopular governor with an unpopular agenda, and she lied to the voters,” Miyares charged.
Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, left, and former state Attorney General Jason Miyares, speak with Fox News Digital on the eve of Virginia’s congressional redistricting referendum in Leesburg, Va., April 20, 2026(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
And Miyares and other top Republicans accused Spanberger of pulling a “bait and switch.”
Spanberger, in an ad in support of the referendum, said she was backing the measure because “it’s directly in response to what other states decide to do and a president who says he’s quote entitled to more Republican seats before this year’s midterms. Our approach is different. It’s temporary. It preserves Virginia’s fair redistricting process into the future.”
Supporters of redistricting dramatically outraised and outspent groups opposed to the referendum, with Virginians for Fair Elections outraising Virginians for Fair Maps by a roughly three-to-one margin. Much of the funding raised by both sides came from so-called “dark money” from nonprofit public policy groups known as 501(c)(4) organizations that are not required to disclose their donors.
Despite the Democrats’ funding advantage, recent polling suggested support for the ballot initiative was only slightly ahead of opposition amid a surge in early voting, which ended on Saturday.
“They have outspent us three to one. They’ve raised over $70 million. And yet this is a close vote,” Youngkin said.
Pointing to the ads in support of the referendum, Youngkin said Virginians “aren’t believing the mistruths. They aren’t believing the lies on TV. They’re actually doing the work themselves and understanding that a no vote is for fair maps and a yes vote is for the most gerrymandered maps in America.”
And Miyares emphasized that Democrats “outspent us, but we have the truth.”
Virginia is the latest battleground in the high-stakes fight between Trump and the GOP and 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 last spring first floated the idea of rare, but not unheard of, mid-decade congressional redistricting.
The mission was simple: redraw congressional district maps in red states to pad the GOP’s fragile House majority to keep control of the chamber in the midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.
When asked by reporters last summer about his plan to add Republican-leaning House seats across the country, the president said, “Texas will be the biggest one. And that’ll be five.”
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas called a special session of the GOP-dominated state legislature to pass the new map.
But Democratic state lawmakers, who broke quorum for two weeks as they fled Texas in a bid to delay the passage of the redistricting bill, energized Democrats across the country.
Among those leading the fight against Trump’s redistricting was Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an election night news conference at a California Democratic Party office in Sacramento Nov. 4, 2025.(Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)
California voters in November overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, a ballot initiative that temporarily sidetracked the left-leaning state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission and returned the power to draw the congressional maps to the Democratic-dominated legislature.
That is expected to result in five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts in California, which aimed to counter the move by Texas to redraw their maps.
The fight quickly spread beyond Texas and California.
Republican-controlled Missouri and Ohio and swing state North Carolina, where the GOP dominates the legislature, have drawn new maps as part of the president’s push.
In blows to Republicans, a Utah district judge late last year rejected a congressional district map drawn by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that will create a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the midterms.
Republicans in Indiana’s Senate in December defied Trump, shooting down a redistricting bill that had passed the state House. The showdown in the Indiana statehouse grabbed plenty of national attention.
Florida is next up.
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 April 28.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., July 22, 2025.(Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service)
Hovering over the redistricting wars is the Supreme Court, which is expected to rule in Louisiana v. Callais, a crucial case that may lead to the overturning of a key provision in the Voting Rights Act.
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If the ruling goes the way of the conservatives on the high court, it could lead to the redrawing of a slew of majority-minority districts across the county, which would greatly favor Republicans.
But it is very much up in the air when the court will rule and what it will actually decide.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.