Gov. Abigail Spanberger‘s (D-VA) redistricting push could wipe out multiple House Republicans and dramatically reshape Virginia’s congressional delegation, turning a narrow 6–5 Democratic edge into a 10–1 Democratic lock.
Voters will decide the measure in a special election on April 21. If approved, it would allow Democrats to bypass Virginia’s bipartisan redistricting commission and redraw its 11 congressional districts mid-decade. The new map, which has already been passed by the Democratic-run state legislature and signed by Spanberger, would lump rural conservative parts of the state with heavily liberal Northern Virginia.
Spanberger and national Democrats frame the push as a direct response to Republican-led redistricting efforts in states such as Texas, casting the referendum as a chance for Virginians to push back against what they describe as an emerging GOP power grab.
Republicans, however, say the referendum is a brazen power grab that will disenfranchise GOP voters in a state that former Vice
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