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GOP started the gerrymander fight — but in Virginia, may not have the guts to finish it

This year’s midterm elections aren’t just about who wins in November — they’re about who wins the fights over gerrymandering taking place right now.

Nowhere is the battle fiercer than in Virginia, a state where voters just six years ago approved a constitutional amendment to take partisanship out of congressional redistricting.

Now Democrats want to make an exception to the rule that Virginia voters approved by a nearly two-thirds majority in 2020.

They want this year’s congressional map to be drawn up by their own state legislators, erasing the districts set up by the bipartisan board established by the amendment just a few years back.

It’s no surprise when a state like Texas or California that leans overwhelmingly toward one party indulges in partisan gerrymandering.

But Virginia is a purple state, and its current congressional representation — six Democrats, five Republicans — reflects that.

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Yet if Democrats get their way in April 21’s special election, they’ll be able to seize 10 of Virginia’s 11 congressional seats for themselves, in the most brazenly unjust reapportionment seen anywhere in decades.

This isn’t about making a blue state bluer or a........

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