Jason Sneed

This could be the way that we actually decide which party is going to control Congress in 2027.

Well, right now, Virginians are going to the polls to decide whether or not the state is going to have a 6-5 map that more or less reflects the current breakdown of the Virginia electorate or a pretty radical gerrymander that would turn that into a 10-1 map and flip four seats from Republicans to Democrats.

And now we're watching the money pour in hand over fist.

We're at almost $65 million that have been poured into this special election to flip those seats and

And the result of this, again, is going to be a net pickup of at least four seats in Congress for the Democrats, which follows what they did in California last year with Prop 50, this attempt to gerrymander these states into essentially guaranteed slots for Democrats in Congress.

They're saying that they have to stop the MAGA power grab, that they have to stop Donald Trump.

That's really what the message is all about.

It's all about stopping Trump.

And I think that's actually persuasive, unfortunately, for a fair number of folks here in Virginia.

Well, we have to remember that the only reason that we have to go to a referendum in the first place is because a few years ago, the left actually passed a different constitutional amendment to end partisan gerrymandering in the state of Virginia.

So what they're doing is, according to them, quote unquote, temporarily undoing that fix and allowing the legislature to redraw maps in a highly partisan fashion.

And if you do that once, I think you've established the precedent that you're going to continue to do it again and again.

After the next census, we expect that blue seats like California, for instance, are going to lose seats in Congress and lose electoral votes.

And that is going to translate into an effort in other states to try to make up for those losses by gerrymandering states like Virginia.

So I don't think this is going to be temporary by any stretch.

Well, my first hope is that Virginians, the voters themselves, will actually see through what's going on here.

They'll see that this is a very clear attempt to rig the rules and to redraw the maps for partisan gain, and they'll say no to this.

But if they do end up voting for this, then we still have this court challenge.

And I think it's important to understand that regardless of how the voters vote today at the polls, we still have to have the rule of law and we still have to have the Constitution of the state of Virginia be respected.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has a chance to say, actually, the rule of law will prevail in this state in order that this entire effort be declared void.