Jeffries: Democrats willing to spend big to reshape Virginia congressional districts

Democrats are ready to spend big to boost a Virginia redistricting effort that could give the party four more House seats, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has said, amid the national battle over congressional lines ahead of the midterms.

“Whatever it takes,” Jeffries told CNN’s Manu Raju in an interview aired Sunday, when asked how much money Democrats are willing to put into the push in Virginia.

“We will spend tens of millions of dollars to make sure that the Republicans do not successfully manipulate voters in Virginia, and that voters have all of the information necessary to make a decision around whether they want Donald Trump to rig the midterm elections and halt the ability for the American people to decide who‘s in the majority, or whether the people of Virginia and the people of America should be the ones to decide,” the congressman said.

Virginia Democrats hold a six-seat majority out of the state’s 11 congressional districts, but they’re planning to put a constitutional amendment before voters this spring that could give them as many as four pickup opportunities this fall.



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