Virginia Democrats advance plan to counter Trump-spawned redistricting in red states

(Reuters) -The Democratic-controlled Virginia House of Delegates voted on Wednesday to amend the state constitution to allow legislators to redraw Virginia’s congressional maps next year, joining a multistate mid-decade restricting war spawned by President Donald Trump.

Passage of the resolution, on a party-line vote of 51-42, sent the measure to the Virginia state Senate, where the Democratic majority in that chamber is expected to approve the measure as well.

(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles, Editing by Franklin Paul)