Scarborough Mocks GOP on VA Redistricting—Skips Spanberger’s ‘No Plans’ Pledge

On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocked Republican criticism of Virginia’s redistricting scheme and cleared a path for Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger to defend it without facing a single hard question. Scarborough ridiculed Republican objections as “screeches,” “howls,” and “whining,” reducing them to “blah, blah, blah.” He went further, hailing the Democrats’ redistricting scheme as “conservative with a small c”—an outrageous misrepresentation of a plan designed, with malice aforethought, to wipe out all but one Republican congressional seat. And then came Scarborough's silence. During her gubernatorial campaign, Spanberger said: “I have no plans to redistrict Virginia.” But Scarborough never mentioned...