Ashley Lopez

The new proposed map could position Democrats to win 10 out of the state's 11 congressional seats.

Right now, the maps are drawn to favor Democrats in about six of the 11 seats.

So a four-seat boost could play a pretty big role in Democrats' efforts to retake the U.S.

House this fall because Republicans currently only have an edge that's about a couple seats.

Good morning.

Yeah.

So it basically allows lawmakers to circumvent the state's redistricting commission.

Virginia is one of those states that takes the process of drawing political lines partly out of the hands of politicians.

But because of this ongoing redistricting battle across the country, Democrats really wanted to skirt that commission so that they could drop some new seats that could favor their party in the fall.

But they needed voters permission first and they got it.

Yeah, good point.

I mean, the Democratic side, the yes side, won by just a few percentage points.

If you compare this to Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger's win last year, this is a much closer result.

It more clearly resembles a purple state than it does a blue one.

Yeah, so what they're planning would be a pretty big change.

The new proposed map could position Democrats to win 10 out of the state's 11 congressional seats.

Right now, the maps are drawn to favor Democrats in about six of the 11 seats.

So a four-seat boost could play a pretty big role in Democrats' efforts to retake the U.S.

House this fall because Republicans currently only have an edge that's about a couple seats.

Yeah, but things are not set in stone.