‘Where Were You?’: GOP Faces Backlash After Virginia Voters Approve Congressional Map
“You can’t brag about a huge war chest and then continue to leave Republicans stranded in blue states.”
Oh boy. The claws are out.
And every single Republican, especially those in Virginia, has every right to be furious with the Grand Old Party.
Last night, Virginia voters approved the Democrat-favored congressional map, giving Democrats a 10-1 advantage.
Where were you, again?
AGAIN.And don’t feed me some bullshit about how you had people on the ground nobody noticed.
You can’t brag about a huge war chest and then continue to leave Republicans stranded in blue states.
Imagine if the NRC cared even half as much as Democrats did in Virginia. @JoeGruters
Where were you, again?
AGAIN.And don’t feed me some bullshit about how you had people on the ground nobody noticed.
You can’t brag about a huge war chest and then continue to leave Republicans stranded in blue states.
Imagine if the NRC cared even half as much as Democrats…
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) April 22, 2026
🇺🇸⚡️ — Virginia Republicans frustrated with leadership.
➡️ GOP delegation angry at RNC and Trump.
➡️ Cite lack of support on referendum fight.
➡️ Requests for meetings reportedly ignored.
➡️ Say priority given to foreign leaders, celebrities.— Geopolitia (@_geopolitic_) April 22, 2026
The RNC spent more money to get John Cornyn to win a Republican Primary than to stop the Democrats from making Virginia 10-1 in the House Seats.
We lost 4 House Seats while they were funding a RINO.
It tells you everything.
Traitors.
— C3 (@C_3C_3) April 22, 2026
“You’d be hard pressed to find a single Republican tonight who doesn’t think the GOP should’ve done more in Virginia,” a GOP operative told Politico. “It actually hurts more that it was so close.”
Maga Inc, the main Super PAC supporting President Donald Trump, has $350 million as of Monday.
- Senate Leadership Fund: $166.4 million
- RNC: $166.8 million
- Congressional Leadership Fund: $91.4 million
- National Republican Congressional Committee: $78.2 million
- National Republican Senatorial Committee: $43.0 million
That’s $895.8 million.
The Democrats have $259.1 million.
The GOP has 3x the cash on hand than Dems. But they failed to put the extra $2M into the VA race that could have saved 4 House seats and handed an historic L to Virginia Dems. There has to be culpability here. @ChairmanGruters https://t.co/bkwtIaHxuB pic.twitter.com/6HrYwv37sO
— Raheem J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) April 22, 2026
Despite having all the money, the Democrats way outspent the Republicans (emphasis mine):
Dems rammed through their 10D-1R congressional map 50-49%… potentially flipping 4 Republican House seats.
They outspent us DOUBLE ($56 MILLION vs our $25 MILLION) — yet it was still razor thin.
Republicans had the cash. We had the momentum.
Instead? We hoarded it, wasted it in safe seats, or sent it to useless places.
This is how we lose majorities.
This is why voters are furious.
GOP leadership — where the hell was the money?!
Time to clean house or watch 2026 turn into a slaughter.
🚨 VIRGINIA JUST GOT GERRYMANDERED INTO A BLOODBATH 🚨
Dems rammed through their 10D-1R congressional map 50-49%… potentially flipping 4 Republican House seats.
They outspent us DOUBLE ($56 MILLION vs our $25 MILLION) — yet it was still razor thin.
Republicans had the cash.… pic.twitter.com/e4XYDSR3BO
— Jack Danger (@JackDangerLIVE) April 22, 2026
“If they had spent some money, they could have won tonight and someone’s got to own that and explain why that decision was made,” another GOP strategist said to Politico.
It’s gross:
The GOP is bragging on social media right now about filling it’s coffers ahead of the midterms yet in Virginia they were outspent by the Democrats on the Gerrymandering issue.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again and again: “The Old Guard GOP/RNC is stockpiling their money to remove the America First movement from the Republican Party in 2028”.
They are intentionally “sinking the boat” and advising Trump to support RINOs and Old Guard GOP/RNC candidates who will be in congress and Governorships past Trump’s tenure as President.
The Old Guard Republicans are NOT your friend.
The GOP is bragging on social media right now about filling it's coffers ahead of the midterms yet in Virginia they were outspent by the Democrats on the Gerrymandering issue.
I've said it before and I will say it again and again: "The Old Guard GOP/RNC is stockpiling their… https://t.co/36IrSSNmiI
— Eric Schwalm (@Schwalm5132) April 21, 2026
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plausible deniability at work
B/c they have “you” convinced that the mid-terms are already in the dem pocket…when the dems cheat..there wont be a reason to say,,the dems cheated
b/c we allll *know* that the gop gave in again…even though the voters might actually still vote gop just because/c the dems are in fact more evil
but b/c of this msm led..gop feed plausible deniability …the gop runs scared and wants to keep the money ala kamala harris not really caring or even thinking she could win
just get allll the money and whatever happens with the votes ,,,happens
which again,, the msm also wanted trump in vs harris for several reasons the least of it being that they get more eyeballs with trump in office
you assume they didn’t cheat in this election….they are already rigged the ballot language
they always cheat
the assumption would be they didnt cheat
they always cheat!!
I’ll tell you where the RINO’s were, they were working on Thune to stop the Save America bill from seeing the light of day. I will donate to local Republicans of my choosing. The RNC can go to hell. They’re not working for us. They’re working for the RINO’s.
Totally agreed. And Carey (my rep) better get off his tail, because he has both a “moderate” independent and a leftist Democrat targeting him. But so far, he’s just sitting there pretending he’ll get re-elected for his nothing burger performance.
Use RICO to permanently abolish the Democrat crime cabal
The importation of MILLIONS of criminal migrants, sometimes using air-carrier sized aircraft is hard to erase
RICO covers immigration conspiracies
Don’t treat the symptom. Kill it at the root
There are 2 other more plausible counters, although both long shots. One is state litigation that is pending. The other is President Trump issuing an EO declaring as unconstitutional the 1847 retrocession of VA’s DC land grant back to VA (done to protect the democrats’ “peculiar institution’). This would send Arlington county and the city of Alexandria back to DC and save VA and the union again from democrats.
In fact these efforts could be complementary. A looming EO may convince the democrats on the VA court to act responsibly.
Huh? “This” would have absolutely no effect, other than to make him look like an idiot. Not only are there no grounds to challenge the retrocession, even if there were it wouldn’t be up to him to do so. An EO from him would just announce his opinion to the world, but his opinion doesn’t change anything.
The pending litigation is a slim chance, which is better than none. An EO would be worse than none.
Two fatal assumptions made here:
1. That it would have made a difference. Let’s say the GOP had spent 8 or 10 million dollars on an ad blitz. Let’s say that they gained 100k votes or so.
What makes you think the Dems wouldn’t have just cranked up the printing presses in Fairfax and Loudon and Arlington and just created another 100k votes for their side? I mean…that’s what they do. And they get away with it so why not?
2. You are assuming that the legacy GOP actually wants to retain their congressional majorities. I’d say that assumption is not supported by the evidence. I believe that the GOP “establishment” prefers to be in the minority. When they’re in the majority, they’re expected to actually accomplish things – and to accomplish the things that their constituents want them to accomplish would erode their power and reduce the amount of grifting they can engage in. Can’t have that. Much better to be in the minority, engage in kabuki theater of outrage over everything the Dems do, but then fall back on the old “we could stop this if only we had the majority” excuse. Wink Wink…Nod Nod…
If this is true, and if Trump didn’t release some money to help, why didn’t any R group release money for this disgusting move by a one term governor who simply lied about it when she campaigned?
Remember, Dems have partnered with a culture that believes in lying any time, anywhere about anything!
Why didn’t Trump (or Musk) spend any money on this? The answer is obvious. If Trump has spent money, the Dems would have used that fact to justify a Yes vote. Remember, the Dem argument was – “vote Yes to stop Trump”. If Trump is spending money, that just proves their point. The No forces had to say “stop gerrymandering”, “fair maps”, etc.., but nobody ran any ads that said “vote no to support Trump” because that argument is a loser in VA. The only thing that might have worked is a massive, personal GOTV push in the more (R) areas of the state to get the non-voters to the polls.
First, it’s not up to ‘Trump’ to spend the money, that’s up to the GOP both Nationally and on a State level, State by State, and truth be told, I’m calling BS on ‘it’s all the money’ that the GOP either spent or didn’t spend, at least in this case. That argument is actually pretty valid most of the time, but here, everybody in that State knew full well what the heck was going on, and certainly every single Conservative knew, but the real problem here was that people just didn’t get off their lazy backsides and voter this garbage down. This kind of thing happened once before in this State, and they wound up with a total clown show for a Government, and when it dawned on them what the did (by for the most part not voting Conservative), next roll around they voted Youngkin and a few others into office in a pretty clean sweep. Sadly, they didn’t remember the lessons learned, and here we go again.
A week before the referendum, I got an email from Speaker Johnson asking for money to fight the referendum. My immediate questions were – why so late? (voting started in March), and what are you going to do with the money – run ads on TV? Of course I didn’t send any money. He could run $100M of ads on TV and it would only serve to goose up Dem turnout. It would move the needle in the wrong direction. That is the same reason I declined to put up a sign – I didn’t want to remind all my Dem neighbors that there is an election. The GOP (meaning Trump’s machine) needs to figure out how to move the needle in congressional races in the right direction without inspiring Dems to turn out in response to the ads. That means targeted, personal, appeals to your voters without reaching Democrat voters at all. It may often mean reaching a voter without reaching that voter’s wife – and that means direct mail is obsolete. Right now they don’t know how to do this. The Democrats do – they hired college students and schoolteachers for a massive GOTV push right before election day, which probably netted them an extra 100k votes. They know who their voters are. We have to get better information on who our voters are, and be able to reach them when needed.
The GOP is losing on purpose to spite Trump
That’s a pretty stupid “long game.” If Dems retake the Senate, the filibuster will be gone. Then a simple majority will rule. If Dems also retake the House, it won’t change much for 2 years except for more of the Biden era “witch hunts.” If Dems take the WH in 2028 and control all three, the damage will be so far done that we’ll never recover. We’ll be headed to where most of western Europe is right now.
Anyone hear rumors about the democrat Senators allegedly being bribed by the Maduro regime?
There are 25 Senators being mentioned to having taken bribes.
25 seems low
The only group the GOP hates more than democrats is their own base.
True for a long time.
Why the GOP inaction here and the overspend on Cornyn? The answer is fairly obvious. For the same reason many republicans in Congress are still reluctant to support President Trump on too many issues to count. The republican establishment frankly does not like President Trump and especially hates his core agenda. So they’d prefer to empower democrats.
Never forget how they poured money into RINO Murkowski’s primary battle to defeat MAGA Kelly Tschibaka. Murkowski, who just speechified against the SAVE Act, and a year ago told people how afraid she is of what Trump is doing.
The GoP establishment are the DC/Acela elitists who are by and large philosophically corporatist/globalists and the weak minded hangers on who want to keep being invited to cocktail/dinner parties. These are the same folks who pushed for China membership in WTO, who decided to gut the broad middle-class by offshore of US manufacturing and kill off coal mining, handcuff oil/gas and nearly destroy timber and mining in the USA. The same folks who failed to push back on one-sided trade in which our ‘allies’ imposed high tariff and non tariff trade barriers often preventing US Agricultural exports entirely. The same fools who tried to kill off Auto manufacturing and Aircraft industry in the South to make their union and big Corporate lobbyist buddies happy.
Bottom lime is the ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ don’t want to be responsible for tough decisions. They want their ego stroked, to be told they are ‘better than, unlike’ their lowbrow constituents, that they are ‘statesmen’. They don’t care about the plight/concerns of the center/right populists.
They are globalists because they are making money off globalism. It is usually as simple as that.
They are big believers in ‘global citizens’ who absolutely will put global profits for what they see as global corporations not as US corporations over the well being of US Citizens, US Consumers, US Economy and the broader US national interest. These faux libertarians will (and have) happily import cheap labor to replace the domestic US Citizen workforce.
The R party is not a conservative party, it is an establishment re-elect party. Neither is it a fighting party. Not in its nature.
It’s also a big business chamber of commerce party. They’re globalists and would love more H1b visas and immigrants illegal or otherwise. Anything to flatten salaries and the hell with American workers.
This has ominous implications for the future. RNC is lapsing back into their old original behavior of spinless establishment conservatives, who won’t fight back, and go along to get along. They would rather be what they consider to be honorable losers, like McCaine or Romney, than a vulgarian winner like trump. RNC chairman must be replaced.
Every time the Republicans need their own Carville — like for RNC chair, or House Speaker, or Senate Majority Leader — it seems that there is not a single one to be found in the entire party. Ironically, Trump is busy primarying out the two most appropriate candidates.
The GOP is the party of losers, adept in the art of “losing graciously” as once said by Victor Davis Hanson.
Vote and support all candidates directly, starve these National RINOs
If you are a Republican donor, you have probably noticed that your favorite candidates’ websites all route donations through WinRed. In fact, if you have ever looked for a way to donate to a candidate without giving WinRed their “RINO tax,” you have been amazed at how impossible it is (other than handing your man a check personally). Brandon Herrera’s website was the first one I found in years that was not beholden to the WinRed monopoly, and I thought that that in itself told a lot of donors what they wanted to know.
I donated to him twice already, and I don’t even live in Texas. We need more people like him in Congress and not “LET’S EVERYONE GET ALONG” RINOs.
Now that government is centralized on one side of the state how many voters are now disenfranchised?
Tyranny of the majority over the minority. That’s how dems playing their game.
Roughly 44%, if my math works out. So… 9 million or so people.
I’m not sure spending more makes a difference despite the close margins. This state where I live has gone full blue from being a DC trough.
This passed with only 80k votes? That is very narrow margin of victory that could have been overcome with more funding for tv advertising by RNC.
Take a look at where the votes happened – the only section of the state that voted overwhelmingly “Yes” was northern VA. But, other than the rural areas, the other two demographic slices I saw were “No” by 3% and 1.7%. And there were LOTS of phone calls and texts going out in my area.
Yep. This close but losing has been happening for years. It’s funny how they find the votes up north always, which is why I said what I said.
It’s been happening since Obama and got worse under Biden. They definitely implemented some things that have nearly turned this state permablue.
Dems are masters at finding the “necessary” votes to win. They used to “hold” reserve votes then release what was necessary. Now they use college kids to drive students and early and mail-in votes to “win.”
And more voters turning out. It’s not like this election was a last minute surprise and no one had notice.
TV advertising would have had no effect. Who watches TV? Lefties mostly. TV ads are a waste of money for the GOP. The only thing that works is personally directed GOTV efforts, and the Democrats did this in spades. We didn’t.
What the hell is wrong with all of you?
Virginia voters had no say in what happened.
Don’t you get that yet?
THEY ARE NOT PLAYING BY THE RULES.
What part of that don’t you understand?
They are against anything that brings any kind of traceable accountability to the voting process.
They’re not actually winning ANY elections without cheating.
Every time a state manages to get an accountability policy to stick dem seats flip. That’s not happening because Democrats are suddenly turning Republican.
It’s happening because people’s votes are getting through without Democrat ‘cures’.
Wake up.
Then they’re being allowed to cheat. Even in your imagined scenario, the GOP sits back while their supporters suffer.
Enough excuses.
Remember the Arizona governor’s race where Kari was leading. The Secretary of State was the Democrat gov candidate. And she was not made to step down from her SOS position for the race. We need guts on our side yet too often the people who have managed to create structures that improve our turnout get no support from Republican state leaders.
Their cheating does not mean that the GOP is doing what it should.
And I don’t know how much cheating there was, given that northern VA voted massively “Yes”. If the margin is small, you don’t need a lot of cheating.
What you mean is that in the districts where the entire election mechanism from top to bottom is controlled by democrats, the “Yes” votes counted were massive.
How many of those votes were actually cast by voters and how many were created by that election mechanism and their vote creation industry is unclear.
The Democrats mobilized college students and teachers to get out the vote right before Tuesday. It worked.
So, the problem is with the results, not the process?
What amount of spending would satisfy, other than “more”?
Would the amount spent be appropriate if the results were different?
If all available funds were expended but the results were the same, would you be satisfied?
I am always suspicious of those who would spend the money of others,
Weird how you saw someone suggesting that money be spent in reply to a post that never mentioned money at all.
I am pointing out that, where the Democrats and the left are concerned there are no rules anymore. We should behave accordingly.
Got my parents to the polls. That’s 3 “no” votes. I did more than the RNC
I’m assuming you’re counting yourself among the 3?
Or, are you counting the way a Democrat would?
😉
It’s highly likely that all three of you voted ‘yes’ regardless of what you did at the polls.
Because that’s where we are.
Gods above the amendment was written that way–
“Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily (whenever Democrats/the Left want) adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness (cheat) in the upcoming elections (because Democrats are losing), while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?’
They’re openly telling everyone that they’re going to cheat.
Is it possible to redistrict FL before mid-terms?
Yes, but it could backfire. You can’t afford to dilute your voters too much in a bad year.
I don’t know about funding.
But I know I was getting at least 10 texts or calls a day during the run-up. Heck, I got 3 or 4 after I had voted. It even outnumbered the bogus texts I get about foreclosing on a property I don’t own.
BTW, ALL of those calls and texts were from “Vote No” groups.
Yes, but to what set of numbers? RNC messaging is only sent to the choir.
It’s the choir that needs to be brought out.
They weren’t brought out enough. Turnout was 500K less than the Governor’s Contest last year.
Hence all the texts that GWB was getting.
“Despite having all the money, the Democrats way outspent the Republicans (emphasis mine):”
Not only dangles, but reverses the entire sense of the sentence. It’s the Republicans that had more money.
The RNC (and the NRA) already got hell from national gun owners for letting Virginia Democrats sweep the last set of elections rather than expend the needed (or frankly any) effort there. They no longer represent us.
That sentence came after the statement about the RNC having a lot more money than the Democrats. It was left to the reader to understand that this sentence meant “Despite [the Republicans] having all the money, the Democrats way outspent the Republicans…”
Obama is whining on X about supporting this move and congratulating VA voters for stopping PRESIDENT Trump from “tilting the election towards Republicans.”
You have to admire his gall and his ability to lie to your face.
Con-man Bathhouse Moslem Barry repulses me too much to admire him for anything.
VA Republicans can always say, “It’s not our fault we didn’t vote. We’ve got a good excuse. The reason we didn’t vote is because the GOP national headquarters didn’t spend enough money to encourage us to vote.”
What about poll watchers? Watchers are not a substitute for turnout: they protect the process, but they don’t create votes — Blaming others is bull crab: the bottom line is voters must vote. Crying out that you should’ve received calls, texts, canvassing, reminders, etc to persuade you to vote is a bunch of Bull.
I think the long haired gay guy that has won is Pennsylvania with his grass roots door to door campaigning is the guy we need in charge of the RNC
He works hard, knows how to get out the vote
I’m going to find out his name, again amd send an email to Trump
Because the peole in charge are useless
We also need MUSK to go in big time with X and people on the ground
Scott Pressler. The establishment GoP basically threw him under the bus b/c he’s gay and has taken ‘controversial’ stances of being pro Trump and anti Sharia. The RNC declined to hire him.
He’s not without flaws but he’s done good work in voter registration efforts and building ground game to recruit precinct captains, poll watchers, canvassers and other in person get out the vote efforts. IMO the consultant class hates him b/c they’d rather focus on fundraising as the target (v spending). When they do spend the $ must flow through the consulting network of grifters to set up ‘push robots calls/texts’ and umpteen mailers instead of creating a lasting grassroots organization driven from bottom up b/c such an organization would undermine the consultant grifters.
Scott Presler.
He is doing the Lord’s work.
The Democrats hired college students to do a massive GOTV push right before April 21. They know what they are doing. Voters need to vote, and often someone has to push them to vote or they won’t bother. To get your side over the finish line in a state with opposite partisanship requires an extra push. That takes money, effort, and knowing what you are doing.
Yep. If nothing else people knocking door to door reminding and nagging folks to go vote in opposition will keep up momentum. Adding drivers/ride share to get ‘our’ folks to polling places is another key aspect. Those are the sorts of hands on, gotta roll up sleeves to get it done things the GoP consultant class disdains.
“Voters need to vote, and often someone has to push them to vote or they won’t bother.”
While that may be true, it takes the responsibility away from the voter and transfers it to someone else.
“To get your side over the finish line in a state with opposite partisanship requires an extra push.”
Yes, it does. And each year it requires a greater push than the year before.
I work in Fairfax County…
A, I did not see a single ad. I saw a lot of lical stories about how loaders were overwhelmed with ads, I don’t know who these people are.
B, it was a messaging strategy problem not a money problem. The messaging seemed to bank on the fact that this was unconstitutional, I have doubts about that. The message should have focused on spanburgers unpopularity and made it a referendum on her first 90 days where she governed like a far left progressive.
C, between all of the DOGE stuff last year and gas prices being $4.00 here I’m not sure anything would have made a difference. Trump and MAGA are pretty unpopular in Virginia no matter how you slice it.
D, hindsight is always 20/20
The problem is this isn’t hindsight. Its a familiar repetition of the same poorly performing election tactics/practices that continue to come up short. The RNC sits on funds holding them like Scrooge McDuck instead of putting them into competitive races/State referendum or when they do spend its on consultant class Apps, robo calls, mailers generated by their grifter crony or to ‘protect’ establishment incumbents in primary fights with a change candidate popular with the base.
Then you know Viriginia is lost forever. The worst thing that can happen to the Ds is lend the governorship for one term in a really bad year. The state has been overrun by people working for the federal government who are 99% Ds.
Chickens voting for college Sanders. Don’t complain when you in like to be cooked.
Scott Pressler to lead the RNC
We need Scott Pressler!!!
Welcome to a 1 party state
Judge just ruled the referendum itself unconstitutional.
Don’t believe the democrats in the VaSCOTUS will allow it to stick.
https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/virginia-congressional-map-redistricting-referendum-vote-attorney-general-tazewell-county-court-republicans-enjoins-injuctive-relief-voters-election-democrats-house-representatives
I’ll believe it when I see it. Most likely, SCOVA will rule that there were constitutional violations, but the errors were harmless because the margin of victory (3 pts) was large enough.
If it’s unconstitutional then the margin of victory is irrelevant 🤣
Yeah, the same partisan Republican judge who twice enjoined the referendum in advance, and was twice overturned by the supreme court. (SCOVA, if you will, but certainly not VaSCOTUS!) I see no reason to suppose he won’t be overturned a third time, no matter how the case is eventually decided. Even a completely honest supreme court (supposing it to be one) has no reason to treat this injunction differently from the previous two.
They want our money and our children, and we have grown too weak and spineless to keep them from taking both. There are way too many jokes here in Louisiana about the GOP. They “never miss the opportunity to miss an opportunity”, while they labor mightily “to snatch defeat from the jaws of Victory “. Once a Party is viewed with such contempt by their own constituency they are all just Dead Pols Walking!
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