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There's Plenty of Gerrymandering Meandering Going on in the Press

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11.05.2026

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Umm, Abby? Your favoritism is showing.

Umm, Abby? Your favoritism is showing.

Most sports broadcasters know not to cheer for one team over the other when performing the play-by-play duties. Abby Phillip could use a lesson in that type of balanced broadcasting.

On her Friday show, she reacted to the announcement that the Virginia Supreme Court had struck down the recent vote to redraw its electoral districting map. During her introductory statements, before turning to her panel, she mentioned the various efforts made by both parties recently, but seemed to have only condemnation for one side. As an example, she brought up that Alabama’s legislature is considering reverting to an older map that states “would pack black voters into one district.” She had no condemnation, curiously, for Virginia’s attempt at doing that very thing, creating a 10-1 advantage for Democrats, or the raft of other states that have entire blue districting, specifically in the New England area. 

She then closed out her preamble thusly:

“So we are, to be frank, in the depths of hell, now, when it comes to redistricting. I don’t think there’s a better way to put it – like, there’s no bottom.”

“So we are, to be frank, in the depths of hell, now, when it comes to redistricting. I don’t think there’s a better way to put it – like, there’s no bottom.”

“We are in the depths of hell” Abby Philip has an EPIC meltdown on CNN NewsNight in the wake of the Virginia Supreme Court ruling that the Democrats’ gerrymandering was unconstitutional.“America's redistricting battles just became a full-fledged war. Democrats are vowing to go… pic.twitter.com/uQ8qLNc4eq— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 9, 2026

“We are in the depths of hell” Abby Philip has an EPIC meltdown on CNN NewsNight in the wake of the Virginia Supreme Court ruling that the........

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