Fetterman on Democrats’ redistricting win in Virginia: ‘We all lose at this point’

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) reacted with dismay Tuesday evening when informed during an appearance on NewsNation’s “Cuomo” that a Democratic redistricting initiative had passed in Virginia, declaring, “We all lose at this point.”

“I mean, I think everyone loses for that,” Fetterman told host Chris Cuomo when informed that Democrats were projected to win approval of an aggressively gerrymandered congressional map in Tuesday’s election.

Fetterman pointed out that the Democratic push to redraw congressional boundaries in Virginia to pick up more House seats in the midterm elections came in response to a Republican effort to aggressively redraw district lines in Texas. But he said the tit for tat still isn’t good for the country.

“I understand this was all that started after Texas decided to kind of do the same thing. I mean, I get the logic to do the things, but overall, we all lose at this point,” he said, arguing that two wrongs don’t make a right.

“The wrong thing doesn’t make it the right thing, but that’s where we are. And if we continue to just attack the other side, whether it’s a red state or whether it’s a blue state, our democracy is degraded,” he warned.

The Virginia redistricting initiative passed narrowly by a vote of 51 percent to 49 percent.

It will allow Democrats to rework the state’s congressional boundaries in a way to allow their party to potentially control 10 of the 11 seats in the House delegation. Democrats currently hold a 6-seat-to-5-seat advantage in the delegation.

The new map would last until after the 2030 census, when an independent commission would regain control of the redistricting process.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) praised the result in Virginia as an important win for Democrats at a time that President Trump has tried to redraw maps in Republican-leaning states.

“Last July, Donald Trump demanded that Texas draw five new Republican seats in the middle of a decade, igniting a chain reaction of corrupt MAGA state legislators attempting to rig the midterm elections. While many expected Democrats to roll over and play dead, we did the opposite,” Jeffries said in a statement.

Updated at 10:26 a.m. EDT

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