Virginia Democrats are giving President Donald Trump and his minions a style of their very own drugs of their redistricting struggle—and the GOP is pissed.
But Virginia Republicans are solely talking out now that Democrats are preventing fireplace with fireplace, a transfer that imperils as many as 4 of their reelection campaigns.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is amongst his state’s Republicans who’re livid that Democrats are enjoying their very own redistricting sport.
“Yesterday I stood proudly with my fellow U.S. House Republicans from Virginia, and with members of the Virginia General Assembly in the State Capitol. We ALL agree that what the democrats in Richmond are trying to do is WRONG,” GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans, who’s already going through a tough reelection, wrote on X. “We will not sit idle as they undermine the constitution of our great Commonwealth. Gerrymandering is wrong and Virginia deserves better.”
Virginia Democrats are planning to make use of the identical sport plan as California, placing up a poll measure for permission to droop the state’s redistricting fee and nix as many as 5 Republican seats.
It is wealthy for Wittman, of all individuals, to say that Democrats try to overturn election outcomes, as he was one of many 147 congressional Republicans who voted to overturn the precise 2020 outcomes to dam Joe Biden’s victory.
“I was a part of partisan redistricting. But the voters of Virginia spoke in 2020 that they didn’t like that happening,” he mentioned. “They didn’t want it, whether it be Republicans or Democrats in the back room. They wanted no more of a partisan redistricting process.”
Apparently, Griffith believes in gerrymandering for me however not for thee.
A cartoon by Jack Ohman.
Even Virginia’s outgoing GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin moaned about Democrats’ effort, calling it “nuts” and “desperate.”
Humorous, he did not say that about Republicans’ mid-cycle gerrymandering in different states.
Nonetheless, Virginia’s Democratic state Senate President Louise Lucas mentioned that Republicans’ bellyaching is simply hypocrisy at its most interesting.
“I served with each of these members of Congress in the General Assembly and this rank hypocrisy only serves to strengthen our position,” she wrote on X. “They can join the unemployment line with the federal employees they have turned their backs on.”
With California’s redistricting effort poised to sail to victory, Virginia transferring to emulate the identical outcomes, and Illinois tossing round a plan to redraw their very own U.S. Home map, it seems that Democrats have lastly stopped bringing a knife to a gun battle.
These Democrats lastly grew some spines, and hopefully simply in time to cease America’s slide into autocracy.
