Virginia’s 66th District is arguably the precise epicenter of the nation’s political wars—and this week, the Supreme Court tilted it toward the Democrats
. The scandals had given the Trump campaign ambitions to flip the state in 2020—but the Supreme Court decision once again puts Republicans on the defensive.“With this particular district, it’s like a circle around my community. With the previous district, it was like over the river through the woods. It definitely cut out Democratic voters. The people who live down the street from me were not able to vote for me.
Virginia Democrats will now face a much more favorable map this November and hope to build on the legislative gains they made in the Commonwealth in 2017 and 2018. “We’ve seen that Virginia is a big indicator of national trends. We’re the only southern state that voted forin 2016. Then in 2017, it was really the start of the blue wave, right? Our 15-seat pickup was the biggest pickup in over a hundred years in Virginia.
In a sense, then, Bynum-Coleman has already won. Until now, she told me, Cox “hasn’t had to run a race, he hasn’t had to be accountable to anyone because the district was drawn for him.” After Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, she hopes, power will be back in the hands of the people—so long as she can get them out of their homes and to the polls. “To me the biggest challenge is going to be just making sure that we’re able to get people out to vote.
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