WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Monday after Democrats’ redistricting loss in Virginia, “We remain undeterred.”<\/p>\n
Last week, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down<\/a> Democrats’ congressional map that would have given them a 10-1 advantage over Republicans in the commonwealth’s U.S. House delegation.<\/p>\n In a letter to fellow Democrats, Jeffries wrote, \u201cOur effort to forcefully push back against the Republican redistricting scheme will not slow down. We are just getting started,\u201d The Hill reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n He explained that Democrats will launch a multi-pronged \u201ccounteroffensive\u201d that includes new redistricting efforts in blue states, new lawsuits against GOP-drawn congressional maps in red states, and a messaging push designed to fault President Trump for rising costs and help flip the House in November\u2019s midterms.<\/p>\n Jeffries said the House Democratic Caucus will meet on Thursday to create a plan \u201cto advance the largest voter protection effort in modern American history.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe will ensure the people decide who controls the Congress, not MAGA extremists desperate to rig the midterm elections,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n California is the only blue state that was able to successfully redraw its congressional map, giving Democrats five more seats for the November elections. Other blue states are unable to redistrict before the midterm elections.<\/p>\n Virginia Democrats have appealed the state Supreme Court’s ruling, but the U.S. Supreme Court will likely let the decision stand.<\/p>\n \u201c[I]n connection with the ongoing Republican effort to cheat in advance of the 2028 election, we will bury the GOP gerrymandering scheme with a massive Democratic redistricting counteroffensive,\u201d Jeffries wrote.<\/p>\n Still, Jeffries is also pointing to more immediate Democratic efforts to counteract the effects of both the Virginia ruling, which eliminated four Democratic-leaning seats, and an earlier decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to void key parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which could wipe out several other Democratic seats across the South.<\/p>\n