{"id":92679,"date":"2026-05-08T23:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/tom-bevan-gerrymandering-genie-isnt-going-back-in-the-bottle-this-is-the-new-normal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:42:38","slug":"tom-bevan-gerrymandering-genie-isnt-going-back-in-the-bottle-this-is-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/tom-bevan-gerrymandering-genie-isnt-going-back-in-the-bottle-this-is-the-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Bevan: Gerrymandering Genie Isn&#8217;t Going Back In The Bottle, This Is The New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> FNC&#8217;s Bret Baier hosts Harold Ford, Mollie Hemingway, and RCP co-founder Tom Bevan to discuss the Virginia Supreme Court throwing out Democrats&#8217; new congressional map on the &#8220;Special Report&#8221; panel.   &#8220;The Virginia gerrymandering effort, Democrats dramatically overreached, and not only did it fail in Virginia, but it also helped light a fire under Republicans in other states,&#8221; Mollie Hemingway said. &#8220;There are now millions of Republicans in the Northeast talking about how they have no representation.&#8221;  &#8220;This does marginally help Republicans &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s going to be much in the final analysis,&#8221; Tom Bevan said. &#8220;But this is the new normal. This genie is not going back in the bottle. As Hakeem Jeffries said, it&#8217;s maximum warfare all the time.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/08\/tom_bevan_gerrymandering_genie_isnt_going_back_in_the_bottle.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNC&#8217;s Bret Baier hosts Harold Ford, Mollie Hemingway, and RCP co-founder Tom Bevan to discuss the Virginia Supreme Court throwing out Democrats&#8217; new congressional map on the &#8220;Special Report&#8221; panel. &#8220;The Virginia gerrymandering effort, Democrats dramatically overreached, and not only did it fail in Virginia, but it also helped light a fire under Republicans in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[541,23016,760,10527,25218,296,1871,4397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}