Obama’s old partner in crime just dropped a truckload of last minute cash as Democrats desperately scheme to fix election night

Virginia Democrats are making one desperate move that has Republicans screaming foul.

The timing couldn’t look worse for the party claiming to defend "democracy."

And Obama’s old partner in crime Eric Holder dropped a truckload of last minute cash as Democrats desperately scheme to fix election night.

Democrats resurrect dead special session to bypass redistricting commission

Virginia House Speaker Don Scott Jr., a Democrat from Portsmouth, sent a letter this week ordering all lawmakers back to Richmond for a special session Monday.¹

The move caught Republicans completely off guard.

Scott pulled off the maneuver by never officially closing a special session that started back in May 2024.²

Now Democrats are using that technicality to restart redistricting discussions without Governor Glenn Youngkin’s approval.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell didn’t hide what’s driving this surprise session.

He told reporters President Donald Trump’s success pressuring Republican-led states to redraw maps forced Democrats to respond.³

The real agenda is simple: Democrats want to blow up the bipartisan redistricting commission Virginia voters approved in 2020.

That commission was supposed to take map-drawing power away from politicians and give it to a mixed group of lawmakers and citizens.

Virginia voters backed that reform by nearly two-thirds just five years ago.⁴

Now Democrats running Richmond want to trash it before the next election cycle even starts.

Eric Holder’s redistricting machine pumps cash into Virginia race

Former Attorney General Eric Holder made himself famous as Obama’s self-described "wingman" during eight years of weaponizing the Justice Department.

Now Holder runs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which exists for one purpose: helping Democrats gerrymander their way to power.

Records from the Virginia Public Access Project show Holder’s NDRC just dropped $150,000 into Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger’s campaign.⁵

Another $150,000 went straight to the Virginia House Democratic Caucus.

The timing tells you everything about what’s really happening here.

Spanberger is locked in a tight race against Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears heading into the November 4 election.

Polls show Spanberger’s lead shrinking from double digits in early October to just seven points by mid-October.⁶

If Earle-Sears wins, she’ll schedule any redistricting referendum to coincide with the 2026 midterms when turnout will be massive.

Spanberger could bury it during a sleepy summer special election when fewer voters show up.

That’s why Holder wants Spanberger in the governor’s mansion so badly.

Republicans vow to fight Democrat power grab

House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore promised reporters his caucus would use "everything legally" to stop what he called a naked power grab.⁷

The special session forces Earle-Sears off the campaign trail during the final week of early voting.

As lieutenant governor, she must preside over the Virginia Senate.

Her campaign blasted the move as a desperate stunt to slow her momentum just 12 days before Election Day.⁸

"This is what panic looks like," campaign spokesperson Peyton Vogel said in a statement.

Youngkin condemned Democrats for betraying the will of Virginia voters who approved the independent commission.

"Twelve days before our statewide elections, this is a shameless, reprehensible political power grab by Democrat lawmakers desperate for anything to distract," Youngkin said.⁹

Democrats need to pass a constitutional amendment resolution before Election Day with a simple majority.

Then they’d vote on the same resolution again in January or February after House elections.

If successful, the amendment would go to voters as a ballot measure.

National redistricting war heats up before 2026 midterms

Virginia became the second state where Democrats launched mid-decade redistricting after California.¹⁰

Trump has been pushing Republican-controlled states like Texas, Kansas and Indiana to redraw maps to protect the GOP’s narrow House majority.¹¹

Democrats are responding with their own gerrymandering push in states they control.

Holder’s NDRC announced it’s targeting at least 13 states for the 2025-2026 election cycles.

The group raised more than $11 million when it launched in 2017 and has been pumping money into state races ever since.¹²

Holder founded the NDRC specifically to counter what Republicans accomplished after the 2010 census.

Back then, the GOP swept state legislatures and controlled redistricting for 187 House seats compared to just 75 for Democrats.¹³

Now Holder wants revenge by rigging the system before the next census in 2030.

Virginia’s bipartisan redistricting commission failed to produce maps in 2021 after Democrats walked out of negotiations.¹⁴

The state Supreme Court had to step in and draw the final maps.

That process still gave Democrats six out of 11 congressional seats.

Now they want more by destroying the commission entirely and drawing whatever maps help them most.

Virginia voters approved that commission as a constitutional amendment because both parties sold it as a reform to end partisan gerrymandering.

Democrats praised it at the time as a victory for fairness and transparency.

Five years later, they’re trying to kill it the moment they think they can grab more seats.

The hypocrisy is stunning even by Washington, D.C. standards.

¹ Charles Creitz, "Obama’s ‘wingman’ dumps $300K into new Virginia redistricting fight as Dems call lawmakers back," Fox News, October 24, 2025.

² Ibid.

³ Ibid.

⁴ "Redistricting in Virginia," Wikipedia, September 3, 2025.

⁵ Creitz, Fox News, October 24, 2025.

⁶ "Spanberger’s lead narrows as Virginia races tighten in new VCU poll," Virginia Mercury, October 21, 2025.

⁷ Creitz, Fox News, October 24, 2025.

⁸ Jane C. Timm, "Virginia Democrats plan effort to redraw the state’s congressional maps," NBC News, October 23, 2025.

⁹ Ibid.

¹⁰ Ibid.

¹¹ Ibid.

¹² "National Democratic Redistricting Committee," InfluenceWatch, August 6, 2025.

¹³ "National Democratic Redistricting Committee," Wikipedia, June 24, 2025.

¹⁴ "2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia," Wikipedia, October 2025.