No one had more riding on mid-decade redistricting than Virginia’s new governor, Abigail Spanberger. Staking everything, she went for broke to impose the nation’s most highly leveraged partisan House redistricting map. Now, following Virginia’s Supreme Court decision striking down her effort, Spanberger’s left with nothing to show for it… especially her credibility.

Last November, Spanberger won a resounding 57.6 to 42.2 percent victory, far larger than Kamala Harris’s 2024 51.8 to 46.1 percent win a year earlier. She swept the entire Democratic ticket into office, even the controversial (reprehensible) Jay “two bullets” Jones as attorney general. With Democrats already controlling Virginia’s legislature, Spanberger gave her party full control of the state’s legislative process.

Spanberger ran as a moderate on the issue of affordability. Democrats trumpeted both. To showcase them, national Democrats tapped her to give the rebuttal to this year’s State of the Union address, in which she asked: "Is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family?"

Spanberger was flying high, the........

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