On Friday, Democrats in the Virginia Senate passed a resolution that will allow Virginia voters to vote on a redistricting map in the 2026 midterm election.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell said that events outside of Virginia left Democrats with no choice:

What you have before you today is a constitutional amendment that none of us wanted to bring to the floor, but circumstances beyond our borders have made it necessary.

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We worked hard. We worked diligently to establish a fair bipartisan redistricting process, but we don’t operate in a vacuum today.

The majority said that Democrats wouldn’t unilaterally disarm, as Republicans are attempting to gerrymander and steal House seats across the country.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that Democrats are fighting back:

Corrupt Republican sycophants in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina bent the knee to Donald Trump and gerrymandered their congressional maps as part of a toxic effort to rig the midterm elections.

Democrats are forcefully fighting back. We have neutralized the Republican scheme to date, with the success of Prop 50 in California, a decisive court victory in Utah and aggressively pushing the extremists back in Ohio. In addition, a bipartisan group of legislators have stopped Trump in Indiana and Kansas.

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