House Democrats reacted with alarm Friday after the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a redistricting referendum that Democrats had hoped would dramatically reshape the state’s congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, dealing what even some Democrats described as a major setback to their effort to retake the House.
The ruling invalidated the April referendum and preserved Virginia’s current 6-5 Democrat-to-Republican congressional split, preventing Democrats from implementing a redistricting plan that could have expanded their advantage to 10-1 in a state where President Donald Trump won 46 percent of the vote in 2024.
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