Redistricting Battles in Florida and Virginia

0:00It's April 27th. This is entertainment in celebrity news today, powered by AI, your daily dose of celebrity buzz. Redisricting fights are heating up in Florida and Virginia, with moves that could flip how seats this fall. In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis just unveiled a map pushing for four new Republican leaning districts, dropping it first to Fox News with clear blue. And red labels on each one's politics. That bold play has folks worried, a bump set against the state's fair-distriged rules, which banned partisan tricks and drawing lines. DeSantis even sent lawmakers a note hinting he wants to rewrite those constitutional protections. Over in Virginia, the state Supreme Court dove into arguments over a voter-approved change, letting Democrats draw a map that might snag them up to. Four seats. Republicans are pushing back hard, saying Democrats botched the timing by passing it after early voting kicked off. GOP challengers argue the rule-demand passage in two sessions with a full election in between,

1:01not just early ballots. Democrats counter that election day is the real marker, and voters had time to catch on. These battles will decide if Republicans hold their slim house edge, or if it evens out, keeping the map wars front and center as midterms near.