{"id":22420,"date":"2026-05-08T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/newsom-accuses-maga-of-rigging-election-after-virginia-decision\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:22:10","slug":"newsom-accuses-maga-of-rigging-election-after-virginia-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/newsom-accuses-maga-of-rigging-election-after-virginia-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom accuses MAGA of rigging election after Virginia decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday accused MAGA Republicans of rigging an election after Virginia&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled against state Democrats&#8217; new congressional map. Newsom noted on the social platform X that Republicans in Tennessee and Missouri, respectively, could each pick up an additional congressional seat through redistricting&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5869834-virginia-supreme-court-redistricting-gavin-newsom\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday accused MAGA Republicans of rigging an election after Virginia&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled against state Democrats&#8217; new congressional map. Newsom noted on the social platform X that Republicans in Tennessee and Missouri, respectively, could each pick up an additional congressional seat through redistricting&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}