After the Virginia redistricting referendum passed narrowly, Wednesday’s CNN This Morning discussion on the new gerrymandered maps included jokes about the new “lobster claw” district as host Audie Cornish chuckled multiple times about the result for Republicans and the disenfranchisement of Republican voters across the state. However, Cornish did also mention some Democratic hypocrisy on redistricting.
Cornish, who earlier in the opening lead of the show said the result would “even the score in the redistricting fight,” asked NPR correspondent Tamara Keith about redistricting: “Was the juice worth the squeeze here for Republicans?”
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