Democratic infighting over aggressive redistricting in Virginia has erupted into public view, with state Sen. L. Louise Lucas lashing out at her own partys U.S. senators and boasting of a plan to engineer a 10-to-1 Democratic advantage in the states congressional delegation.
According to WND, Lucas, the powerful Democratic president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, used social media to celebrate passage of a state constitutional amendment that would allow the General Assembly to redraw the commonwealths congressional districts in the middle of the decade. The measure, approved Friday by Senate Democrats, is aimed squarely at reshaping the U.S. House map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, as both parties escalate redistricting battles nationwide.
Lucas first posted a mocking meme of a McDonalds worker asking, Would you like fries with that? as she touted the amendments passage and the power it could give Democrats. In a follow-up post, she turned her fire on Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, insisting they should stay out of Richmonds map-drawing and focus instead on attacking President Donald Trump.
I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need coaching on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1, Lucas wrote, making explicit her goal of a 10-Democrat, 1-Republican split in Virginias 11 House seats. Her language underscored the hardball approach Democrats are now embracing, even as they accuse Republicans elsewhere of partisan gerrymandering.
The Virginia Senate advanced the mid-decade redistricting amendment on a 21-18 party-line vote just three days into the 2026 legislative session, the Virginia Mercury reported. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell claimed the move was a reluctant response to Republican-led map changes in other states, but the practical effect is to entrench Democratic power in Washington.
Redistricting tensions surged after Texas Republicans moved forward in 2025 with new congressional maps that could add as many as five GOP seats before 2026. Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom then pushed through a sweeping 50-district overhaul, later ratified by voters, that could slash the states already small Republican delegation from nine members to as few as four.
With Virginia now joining the fray, Democrats are openly seeking to convert a narrow 65 House majority into a near-monopoly. The 101 target touted by Lucas would effectively neutralize Republican voters in large swaths of the commonwealth, despite Virginias competitive statewide political history.
The aggressive posture has drawn sharp criticism from conservatives who argue that Republican leaders in some red states failed to anticipate or counter the Democrats strategy. Vice President J.D. Vance singled out Indianas GOP leadership, blasting state Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray for blocking a redistricting push in December 2025.
Id like to thank @bray_rodric for not even trying to fight back against this extraordinary Democrat abuse of power. Now the votes of Indiana Republicans will matter far less than the votes of Virginia Democrats. We told you it would happen, and you did nothing, Vance wrote on X, warning that unilateral disarmament on redistricting has real electoral consequences.
Before any new maps can be drawn and placed on the ballot, the amendment must be signed by newly inaugurated Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger, according to the Virginia Mercury. Warner and Kaines offices did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundations request for comment, leaving unanswered whether national Democrats will publicly endorse Lucas 101 scheme or quietly distance themselves from the raw partisan calculus now driving Virginias redistricting fight.
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