Jeffries vows 'massive' response following redistricting setback in Virginia

Source: The Hill

05/11/26 12:58 PM ET


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is vowing a “massive” response to last week’s Virginia Supreme Court decision on redistricting, which nullified a new map in the Old Dominion to the advantage of Republicans.

Jeffries said Democrats will be launching a multi-pronged “counteroffensive” featuring new redistricting efforts in blue states, new lawsuits against GOP-drawn maps in red states, and an all-hands messaging push designed to pin rising costs on President Trump and help flip the House to the Democrats’ side in November’s midterms.

“We remain undeterred,” Jeffries wrote Monday in a letter to fellow Democrats. “Our effort to forcefully push back against the Republican redistricting scheme will not slow down. We are just getting started.”

Jeffries said the House Democratic Caucus will huddle as a group on Thursday in the Capitol to chart a path “to advance the largest voter protection effort in modern American history.”. “We will ensure the people decide who controls the Congress,” he wrote, “not MAGA extremists desperate to rig the midterm elections.”

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