作者：查尔斯·克里茨 | 福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年3月23日 美国东部时间下午6:00
弗吉尼亚州一位资深民主党人似乎承认，该州民主党议员重划弗吉尼亚州国会选区地图的努力，更多是为了阻止总统唐纳德·特朗普及其议程，而非确保弗吉尼亚州（“老自治领”）选民的公平权益。
里士满民主党多数派起草的一项公投计划于4月提交选民表决，该计划允许立法机构重划弗吉尼亚州国会选区。里士满民主党人表示，此举将试图让五位共和党国会议员中的四位“出局”，并将大多数新选区的人口来自人口密集、偏向左翼的费尔法克斯县。
在接受美国全国广播公司新闻（NBC News）采访时，代表亚历山大-费尔法克斯选区的民主党众议员唐纳德·贝耶（Donald Beyer）在评论似乎对共和党有利的早期投票数据时，似乎承认了重划选区的真实目的。
贝耶表示，重划选区的努力“绝不是板上钉钉的事”，民主党人需要“有效地表明，尽管这在弗吉尼亚州看似不公平，但对美国来说完全公平——对我们这些认为重新夺回众议院是我们能用来阻止唐纳德·特朗普的最重要事情的人来说。”
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弗吉尼亚州民主党众议员小唐纳德·贝耶（Donald Beyer Jr.）参加在华盛顿举行的抗议活动。（汤姆·威廉姆斯/盖蒂图片社）
“唐说出了‘潜台词’，”弗吉尼亚州众议院少数党领袖、共和党人特里·基尔戈尔（Terry Kilgore，来自盖特城）周一告诉福克斯新闻数字版。
“这对弗吉尼亚州明显不公平。我们是一个51-49的州，不是90-10的州。如果他们愿意以‘公平’的名义压制近半数弗吉尼亚州选民，他们还会做什么？”基尔戈尔说。根据新地图，他位于西南偏远地区的立法席位将位于唯一一个共和党占优的国会选区。
“去年11月，民主党向弗吉尼亚人兜售了一个虚假的‘可负担性’议程，这是一场彻头彻尾的骗局和欺诈，”参议院少数党领袖、共和党人瑞安·麦克杜格尔（Ryan McDougle，来自汉诺威）表示。
“现在他们又卷土重来，试图以‘公平’的虚假标签强行推行另一项党派权力掠夺，”他告诉福克斯新闻数字版。
福克斯新闻数字版已联系贝耶寻求进一步置评，并就其言论询问了州长阿比盖尔·斯潘伯格（Abigail Spanberger）的看法。
弗吉尼亚州五位国会议员：民主党为了操纵选区而无视选民
弗吉尼亚州民主党众议员唐·贝耶在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿参加特里·麦克奥夫（Terry McAuliffe）的竞选活动，麦克奥夫是弗吉尼亚州民主党州长候选人。（2021年7月23日，星期五，美国弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿）。麦克奥夫正将总统拜登带到投票率高的郊区，以保持全国性焦点，并将其共和党对手与前总统特朗普联系起来。摄影师：奥利弗·孔特雷拉斯/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images
下个月提交选民的修正案文本询问：弗吉尼亚州宪法是否应修改，以允许州议会暂时采用新的国会选区，以恢复即将举行的选举中的公平性。
“恢复公平”这一口号成为批评者的响亮号召，他们声称贝耶的言论正是他们所指出的：所谓的“公平”定义充其量是值得商榷的。
“贝耶议员说出了‘潜台词’。这与公平、透明或代表弗吉尼亚人无关，”弗吉尼亚州共和党众议员本·克莱恩（Ben Cline）表示。根据新地图，他的谢南多厄河谷选区将被分割成几个与费尔法克斯相连的部分。
“这关乎政治权力和民主党‘操纵地图以重新夺回众议院’的决心。当民主党人承认他们愿意为了国家政治权力而在弗吉尼亚捍卫一个不公平的程序时，这恰恰暴露了这一努力的驱动力，而这与他们本应代表的人民无关，”克莱恩告诉福克斯新闻数字版。
弗吉尼亚州11个国会选区中的5个将起源于阿灵顿或费尔法克斯县，并涵盖该州保守派腹地的精心划定区域，其中一个选区因形状酷似龙虾或蝎子而受到嘲笑——它从波托马克河开始，向西南穿过民主党郊区，然后分成两半。一半包括靠近西弗吉尼亚州的格林县、罗金厄姆县和奥古斯塔县等农村地区，另一半则沿扎卡里·泰勒高速公路延伸至里士满以西的古奇兰县和波瓦坦县。
反过来，一个可能以民主党为主的选区将形成，将罗金厄姆县和奥古斯塔县内的哈里森堡、斯坦顿和韦恩斯伯勒独立城市与纳尔逊县等保守地区连接起来，并向南延伸至林奇堡和罗阿诺克。
贝耶目前的选区可能成为新的第8选区，沿着波托马克河西岸延伸，穿过现任共和党人罗布·维特曼（Rob Wittman，弗吉尼亚州第1选区，位于北部颈地区的农村地带）的选区，收集该州牡蛎之乡的近十几个红色小县，这些县以深蓝色城市为中心。
根据地图，唯一被认为安全的共和党席位是代表摩根·格里菲斯（Morgan Griffith，弗吉尼亚州）的远西南部选区，该选区将成为压倒性共和党席位。
众议员詹妮弗·基根斯（Jennifer Kiggans）的东海岸和汉普顿锚地区域选区将吸纳足够的城市和郊区人口，可能转为蓝色。
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自本月早期投票开始以来，标有“投反对票”的庭院标牌已开始出现在几个受新地图影响的红色县，包括卡普佩珀、谢南多厄、海兰、奥兰治和佩奇县（包括卢雷洞穴）。
周末，“投赞成票”的标牌在农村的克拉克县和郊区的普林斯威廉姆县被发现。
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Virginia Dem Rep. Beyer admits redistricting aims to stop Trump, not voters | Fox News
By Charles Creitz | Fox News
Published March 23, 2026 6:00pm EDT
A top Virginia Democrat appeared to admit that state Democratic lawmakers’ effort to redraw the commonwealth’s congressional map is more about stopping President Donald Trump and his agenda than about ensuring fairness for voters in the Old Dominion.
A referendum drafted by Richmond’s Democratic majority and set to go before voters in April would allow the assembly to redraw Virginia’s congressional map in a way that Richmond Democrats signaled would draw out four of five Republican congressmen and draw the populations of most new districts from dense, left-wing Fairfax County.
In comments to NBC News, Rep. Donald Beyer, an Alexandria-Fairfax Democrat, appeared to admit redistricting’s true purpose while commenting on early voting figures that appeared to lean in the GOP’s favor.
Beyer said the redistricting effort is “not a done deal by any means” and that Democrats need to “effectively make the case that even though this seems unfair in Virginia, it’s totally fair for America, for those of us who believe that taking back the House is the most significant thing we can do to stop Donald Trump.”
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Rep. Donald Beyer Jr., D-Va., attends a protest in Washington.(Tom Williams/Getty Images)
“Don said the quiet part out loud,” Virginia House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore, R-Gate City, told Fox News Digital on Monday.
“This is manifestly unfair for the Commonwealth of Virginia. We’re a 51-49 state, not a 90-10 state. If they’re willing to silence nearly half the Commonwealth’s voters in the name of ‘fairness,’ what else are they willing to do?” Kilgore said. His legislative seat in the far southwest would sit in the sole Republican-favored congressional district under the new map.
“Last November, Democrats sold Virginians a fake ‘affordability’ agenda that is false, a total hoax, and a con job,” Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle, R-Hanover, said.
“Now they are back at it, trying to shove another partisan power grab down our throats, this time wrapped in the phony label of ‘fairness,’” he told Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital reached out to Beyer for further comment and to Gov. Abigail Spanberger for her take on his admission.
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Representative Don Beyer, a Democrat from Virginia, speaks during a campaign event for Terry McAuliffe, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Virginia, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., on Friday, July 23, 2021. McAuliffe is bringing President Biden to the vote-rich suburbs as he works to keep a national focus in the race and tie his Republican opponent to former President Trump. Photographer: Oliver Contreras/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The text of the amendment facing voters next month asks whether the Constitution of Virginia should be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections.
The tagline “restore fairness” has become a clarion call for critics who claim exactly what Beyer appeared to admit: that the definition of “fairness” used is questionable at best.
“Representative Beyer said the quiet part out loud. This isn’t about fairness, transparency, or representing Virginians,” Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., said. His Shenandoah Valley district stands to be chopped into several Fairfax-connected pieces under the new map.
“It’s about political power and Democrats’ determination to rig the map to ‘take back the House.’ When Democrats admit they’re willing to defend an unfair process in Virginia for the sake of national political power, it exposes exactly what’s driving this effort, and it has nothing to do with the people they’re supposed to represent,” Cline told Fox News Digital.
Five of Virginia’s 11 congressional districts would originate in Arlington or Fairfax counties and encompass meticulously drawn swaths of the state’s conservative interior, including one district ridiculed for resembling a lobster or scorpion, as it begins at the Potomac River and winds southwest through Democratic suburbs before splitting into two halves. One half includes rural Greene, Rockingham, and Augusta counties closer to West Virginia, while the other stretches down the Zachary Taylor Highway into Goochland and Powhatan counties west of Richmond.
In turn, a likely Democrat-majority district would form, narrowly connecting the independent cities of Harrisonburg, Staunton, and Waynesboro within Rockingham and Augusta counties and linking them via conservative areas like Nelson County with Lynchburg and Roanoke far to the south.
Beyer’s current district would likely become the new 8th and stretch down the west bank of the Potomac River through current Rep. Rob Wittman’s, R-Va., rural 1st District in the Northern Neck, collecting nearly a dozen small red counties in the state’s oyster country anchored by the deep-blue city.
The only Republican deemed safe under the map would be Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., in the far southwest, which would become an overwhelmingly Republican seat.
Rep. Jennifer Kiggans’ evenly split Eastern Shore and Hampton Roads district would draw in just enough urban and suburban population to potentially turn blue.
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Since early voting began this month, yard signs emblazoned with “VOTE NO” have begun popping up in several red counties threatened by the new map, including Culpeper, Shenandoah, Highland, Orange, and Page, home to Luray Caverns.
“VOTE YES” signs were, in turn, observed in rural Clarke and suburban Prince William counties over the weekend.
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