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DNC vice chair: flipping seven House seats, three Senate seats would open Washington's redistricting process
Summary
At a Spokane convention Q&A, the DNC vice chair said changing Washington's constitutionally constrained redistricting process requires Democratic supermajorities — "flip seven seats in the house and three in the state senate" — and urged grassroots organizing as the path forward.
The DNC vice chair said Washington's redistricting rules are set in the state constitution and that altering them would require Democratic supermajorities in both chambers of the state Legislature. "We need to flip 7 seats in the house and 3 in the state senate in order to get to those supermajorities," she said, urging organizers to focus on those pickups.
She told delegates in Spokane that the party should prioritize local organizing and candidate recruitment to reach that threshold, pointing to close 2024 margins in several legislative seats and to progress in congressional battlegrounds. The vice chair said Washington remains critical to the national House map and highlighted the need to hold CD 3 while competing in CD 4 and CD 5.
The remarks framed redistricting as contingent on electoral outcomes rather than immediate legislative reform. The vice chair declined to give a specific timeline beyond the current cycle but said the party's strategy is to invest in the districts most likely to produce the necessary seat flips.
