On Friday, Democrats in the Virginia Senate passed a resolution that would allow Virginia voters to vote on a redistricting map in the 2026 midterm elections.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell said events outside Virginia left Democrats no choice:
What lies before you today is a constitutional amendment that none of us wanted to bring up, but circumstances beyond our borders have made it necessary.
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We have worked hard. We’ve worked hard to create a fair, bipartisan redistricting process, but we don’t operate in a vacuum today.
The majority said Democrats would not unilaterally disarm as Republicans across the country are trying to steal House seats.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats are fighting back:
Corrupt Republican sycophants in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina bent the knee to Donald Trump and manipulated their congressional maps as part of a poisonous effort to rig the midterm elections.
Democrats are fighting back vigorously. We have neutralized the Republican plan so far, with the success of Prop 50 in California, a decisive court victory in Utah, and aggressively pushing back the extremists in Ohio. Additionally, a bipartisan group of lawmakers blocked Trump in Indiana and Kansas.
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