Nia-Malika Henderson, Columnist

Trump’s Redistricting Win Masks a Messaging Loss

May 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM UTC

Nia-Malika Henderson is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former senior political reporter for CNN and the Washington Post, she has covered politics and campaigns for almost two decades.

Facing a trickier path
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When I texted a Democratic source about the state of the party’s redistricting efforts in Virginia, he offered a one-word reply.

“Er,” he responded.