By Steve Gorman

(Reuters) -Virginia is shaping up as the latest battleground in a rare and widening mid-decade redistricting war instigated by President Donald Trump, as Democrats in Richmond weigh joining California with efforts to redraw congressional maps to their advantage.

Democratic leaders have summoned Virginia legislators into a special session starting on Monday where they are expected to consider a plan to counter Republicans’ intended gains in the U.S. House of Representatives from recent redistricting by legislators in several red states.

Republicans, including Trump, openly acknowledge that redrawn maps enacted in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina are aimed at preserving their party’s slim U.S. House majority in the 2026 midterm elections.

Democrats have decried those re

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