Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Wednesday that South Carolina should think about redistricting after Virginia voters backed a plan to do so in their own state on Tuesday.
“After the Virginia Democrats’ efforts to redistrict in order to increase Democrat seats in the House of Representatives, South Carolina should consider fighting fire with fire,” Graham wrote in a Wednesday afternoon post on the social platform X.
“I would encourage South Carolina’s next Republican governor and the Republican legislature to seriously look at what our state’s response should be to Democrats in Virginia,” he added.
Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a redistricting plan supported by Democrats, giving the go-ahead to a new congressional map that could give the party as many as four seats before the midterm elections.
Democratic lawmakers had asked Virginia voters to approve a state constitutional amendment that would temporarily bypass the state’s redistricting commission and switch up maps in the middle of the decade.
