NORFOLK — With an end to the government shutdown apparently in sight, talk at a congressional forum this week quickly pivoted to another hot topic: redistricting.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott — sitting on a panel Monday with Republicans and Rob Wittman and Jen Kiggans, who represent Virginia’s 1st and 2nd districts — said the state’s Democrats had no choice but to respond to a push from President Donald Trump to have Republican-led states gerrymander their congressional districts.

“We didn’t provoke it,” said the Newport News Democrat. “It was Texas.”

“Every state that can participate, regrettably, has to participate,” Scott said. “They will go back to normal, to a commission, in 2030 so that this is just a temporary response to what is going on, but I don’t think there’s any other way that we

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