Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a mid-decade redistricting plan that could help Democrats win four more House seats ahead of the November midterms.
Voters in the Old Dominion approved a temporary amendment to the state constitution allowing Democrats to draw new congressional lines favoring the party in all but one of its 11 House districts. Democrats currently hold a 6-5 edge, and the new map will hold until the process reverts back to a bipartisan redistricting commission after the 2030 Census.
. . . “This campaign was built in just five months — overcoming nearly $40 million spent on spreading MAGA lies and misinformation to confuse voters, navigating unprecedented legal challenges to stop Virginians from having a say, and asking voters to grapple with a complex issue for our democracy,” Virginians for Fair Elections campaign manager Kéren Charles Dongo said in a Tuesday statement.
“But in the end, voters cut through the noise, made their voices heard, and voted YES,” she added.
Republicans tout close race
With more than 95 percent of the vote in on Tuesday night, roughly 1.5 million Virginians voted “yes,” while around 1.45 million voted “no,” according to Decision Desk HQ — a 51 percent to 49 percent split.
. . . The Virginia results are a boon for big names in the party, including Obama and Jeffries as well as Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.).
Spanberger, who won her seat last year as Democrats reveled in a string of off-year and special election momentum, had been seen as more restrained than some other Democrats in her approach to the measure, though she made her support new maps clear.
Tuesday’s win helps relieve some of the focus on the partisan political fight that has consumed her first few months in office.
. . . “Virginia voters have spoken, and tonight they approved a temporary measure to push back against a president who claims he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress. Virginians watched other states go along with those demands without voter input — and we refused to let that stand. We responded the right way: at the ballot box,” Spanberger said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Yeah. And the left will pelt them with rocks and garbage if they do, and if they don’t. If they do it’s proof they’re fascism lite, and if they don’t it’s proof they don’t care about the proletariat.