Virginia voters approve new congressional maps in blow to Trump

Result could help Democrats win four extra US House seats in tit-for-tat redistricting battle begun by Texas

Voters in Virginia on Tuesday approved new congressional maps intended to boost Democrats' chances of retaking the House of Representatives, in the latest blow to Donald Trump's effort to use mid-decade redistricting to preserve his control of Congress.

The tit-for-tat redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas's Republican-controlled legislature to redraw that state's congressional maps in an effort to oust as many as five Democratic House lawmakers in the November midterm elections.