When Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Hakeem Jefferies, and Kamala Harris come together to express their elation, then we can rest assured that something very bad for the country has happened. I speak of yesterday’s redistricting vote in Virginia, a blatant and arguably unconstitutional attempt to gerrymander Virginia’s congressional representation, converting a 6–5 split between Democrats and Republicans, built upon a bipartisan redistricting process approved in 2020, into a 10–1 Democrat advantage.
I’ve already written about this measure, shortly after early voting started and again in the closing days of the election. I have nothing to add to my earlier analysis of how profoundly wrong it was for Virginia, and profoundly wrong-headed its appeal to a certain class of Virginia voters, those who want to run the state from the suburbs of D.C.
Nor do I wish to dive into the legal path ahead, except to note that a constitutional challenge is already underway, and that before actual redistricting can take place, the measure will have its day in court. As for the fairness of the vote itself, perhaps one observation will suffice, namely that the Democrats outspent the Republicans by approximately four to one, much of it, apparently, being money coming from outside Virginia.
Add this to the massive free support from much of the media and hugely influential D.C. suburban TV stations, and one doesn’t even have to reach for other ways in which the vote might have been manipulated. The deck was always stacked and, as conservatives across the state belatedly woke up to the threat — rallying in town after town, fighting hard to drum up every small town and rural vote — the Democrats piled on even more aggressively.
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