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The White House is already plotting its response to a major Democratic Party victory where Virginia voters elected to adopt a new congressional district map that could flip as many as four seats, but “even some of [President Donald] Trump’s closest allies” are “worried” that the plan could “backfire” spectacularly, Politico reported Wednesday.

Tuesday night, Virginia voters approved a new congressional district map for the state that could flip as many as four Republican-controlled seats, a referendum that was launched in response to Trump’s redistricting push he pushedlast year to bolster Republicans’ election prospects for the upcoming midterm elections.

House Democrats are demanding an honest accounting of FBI Director Kash Patel's alleged drinking problem.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have called on the 46-year-old Patel to take an alcohol-abuse test or testify under oath after The Atlantic published a deeply sourced report on his alleged excessive drinking, and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) sent him a letter seeking a sworn statement statement authenticating the accuracy of his answers by 5 p.m. Tuesday, reported The Hill.

With more than 95% of the vote in, Virginia voters elected to adopt a new congressional district map on Tuesday that could flip as many as four Republican-held seats, sparking panic within the GOP as the party’s slim majority in the House comes under threat.

“Republicans are already pointing fingers at each other over whether they missed an opportunity to halt Democrats’ growing momentum and pull off an upset,” reads Punchbowl News’ Wednesday report on the results of the statewide referendum. “The implications of a Democratic House majority are enormous. It could mean a third impeachment for Trump, although Democrats claim that’s not on their agenda.”

Republicans are pointing fingers after a narrow redistricting loss in Virginia undermined President Donald Trump's national gerrymandering crusade, effectively erasing months of GOP gains and creating a stalemate in the high-stakes redistricting battle.

Republican insiders acknowledged their party should have invested more heavily and earlier in Virginia, where Democrats narrowly won a referendum on a new congressional map that could provide the party as many as four additional House seats that, combined with Democratic gains in California and a court-drawn seat in Utah, has eliminated the advantage the GOP built from new maps in Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and Missouri, reported Politico.

An author who has written four books about President Donald Trump revealed how the president plans to retain power over the White House once he leaves office.

Journalist Michael Wolff, author of the book "Fire and Fury" about the first Trump administration, argued during a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast, that Trump could use his children to stay in power after his second administration. He singled out Trump's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., who seems to have been groomed for this very moment.

The "can of worms" that first lady Melania Trump opened up when she held a seemingly unprompted press conference about her ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein may be too much for President Donald Trump to survive, according to two analysts.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discussed Melania Trump's recent press conference on a new episode of the podcast, "The Court of History." They speculated that Melania Trump must know something is about to be revealed about her ties to Epstein, otherwise she wouldn't have felt compelled to make some of the statements that she did.

US President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is costing nearly $2 billion per day, according to a Harvard analysis based on estimates from the Pentagon. The head of the United Nations’ humanitarian agency said the money could instead be used to save more than 87 million lives around the world.

Tom Fletcher, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), spoke at Chatham House on Monday about a “cataclysmic” funding crisis for the UN, in large part due to the termination of billions of dollars in funding from the US and other major powers such as the UK. Fletcher said his agency has seen its budget cut by around 50%.

Fresh off Democrats' victory in Tuesday night's referendum in Virginia to retaliate against Republican mid-decade gerrymanders by drawing out four Republicans, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) put out a statement warning Florida Republicans not to try following suit — or they would go all out to break them at the ballot box.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pressed the legislature hard to redistrict, arguing that the Census did not properly capture the population of the state, and some GOP strategists hope they could squeeze at least three more Republican seats out of the current map, which is already an aggressive gerrymander. But others fear this would backfire, as the electorate shifts bluer than the 2024 voting patterns used to perform any redraws, and could flip several seats that are only slightly GOP-leaning.

Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement melted down on Tuesday night after voters in Virginia approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's election map.

The new map will give Democrats four more seats in the House of Representatives, and was passed at a time when many in the Republican Party are expressing concern about their party's chances of retaining power in the upcoming midterm election. About 51% of voters, or more than 1.5 million people in all, supported the ballot measure, according to the election results.

Comedian Ramy Youssef had a simple response to conservatives melting down over his Sesame Street appearance — take it up with the president.

Youssef guest-starred on the children's classic last week as part of Arab American Heritage Month, spending a few minutes with Elmo learning basic Arabic greetings. The segment was not intended to be threatening, but that wasn't how it was received by the right-wing outrage machine, Variety noted Tuesday.