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How Virginia Democrats are coping with their redistricting defeat

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on February 24, 2026, in Williamsburg, Virginia. | Mike Kropf/Getty Images Virginia’s plan to redraw its congressional maps to create as many as four new Democratic seats is dead, struck down by the state supreme court. Its impact on Virginia politics, though, is still being felt — and nowhere more visibly than in Virginia’s First District. The district, which covers much of Virginia’s coastline and includes parts of the Richmond suburbs, is one of the few in the c...