Virginia Senate Democrats passed a resolution on Friday that will 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 with no choice:
What you have before you today is a constitutional amendment that none of us wanted to introduce, but circumstances beyond our borders made it necessary.
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We worked hard. We have worked diligently to establish a fair, bipartisan redistricting process, but we are not operating in a vacuum today.
The majority said Democrats would not unilaterally disarm, as Republicans attempt to gerrymander and steal House seats across the country.
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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 distorted their congressional maps as part of a toxic effort to rig the midterm elections.
The Democrats are fighting back with force. We have thus far neutralized the Republican project, with the success of Proposition 50 in California, a decisive legal victory in Utah, and an aggressive crackdown on extremists in Ohio. Additionally, a bipartisan group of lawmakers stopped Trump in Indiana and Kansas.
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