The View Smears VA Supreme Court With Lies, Ignore Democrats Breaking Law

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 11th, 2026 5:05 PM

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Last week, the Virginia Supreme Court overturned an unconstitutional referendum effort by state Democrats to gerrymander the state’s national House seats 10-1. During Monday’s edition of The View, the ABC News hosts carried water for the liberal extremists as they completely ignored the substance of why the court overturned the results in favor of just lobbing incendiary claims that the justices just didn’t like the result and were following Trump’s orders. They even accused the justices taking part in an election “cheat” plot.

Ignoring how Democrats violated the Virginia Constitution when it came to the process of amending it (which was needed to enact their redistricting scheme) and that a lawsuit was filed, moderator Whoopi Goldberg introduced the subject as the justices just unilaterally deciding to undo the referendum:

And then this happened, there was another seismic shift in voting rights last Friday after the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a redistricting map that had been approved by Virginia voters. Okay? They said, ‘this is what we want.’ They came and said, ‘no, that's not what you want, we changing it.’

 

 

What she was doing was pure disinformation. The voters did not approve a “map,” they approved deceptively vague language about redistricting efforts.

“This feels like a cheat,” Goldberg claimed as she suggested it was designed to suppress voter turnout, “And what this is supposed to do is make you think, ‘Ugh, it's not even worth voting.’ It is always worth voting. It is always, always, always worth voting.”

 

 

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin proved yet again just how empty of a suit she was as the purported “Republican” on the panel. Without mentioning that the court overturned the redistricting effort on constitutional grounds, she asserted, "this was a technicality that the Supreme Court decided to get hung up on."

She also suggests the court was following Trump's orders:

And Donald Trump has been conveying for the last decade that he plans to do this, that he wanted state assemblies to redraw their congressional maps to create more Republican seats. What it becomes is a race to the bottom, and right now Trump and his team are playing three-dimensional chess and it feels like the Dems are just not playing that well.

There was also some whining from her about how, “it just feels like Democrats once again getting out maneuvered and - I think it's why people throw up their hands and feel like their vote doesn't count.”

 

 

Pretend independent Sara Haines did note that there was more nuance to the ruling than they were describing, but never actually explained that Democrats violated the constitution.

Instead, she openly argued that Democratic efforts to gerrymander were inherently better than Republicans’

And the thing I also noticed is, we talk often about how both parties do it. The difference is the Republicans often do it -- and this happened in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee -- they do it through the officials at the top, the GOP. When the Democrats have done it they at least throw it out to the people and say what do you think of this? And I tend to think if there is a lesser evil that's the one, you want the voters doing this.

 

 

Again, there was no actual mention that the Democratic referendum in Virginia was unconstitutional.

Using more incendiary rhetoric, fake Republican Ana Navarro lashed at Texas and claimed Republicans “drew first blood” with gerrymandering:

So, I don't know that we should be both-siding this or I know we shouldn't be both-siding this because this would have never happened but for Texas being the first to draw blood and redistricting to give Republicans five new seats. Democrats have been left in a position of having to react to that first stupid thing and trying to catch up, which they are not doing and they just don't have the -- you know, they don't -- they just are not doing it.

 

 

Fact check: false. History didn’t start with the Texas redistricting and the first party to gerrymander was the Democratic-Republican Party, the predecessors to today’s Democratic Party. There was also the existence of states like New Mexico, where Republicans make up 44 percent of the electorate but there were no Republican majority districts, which long predated the Texas redistricting.

Of course, chronically aggrieved co-host Sunny Hostin played the race cared and insisted that all the redistricting was about disenfranchising black voters:

I hope that's true. I think it's tough when you do gerrymander. I think it's tough because you do dilute the black vote. And people are saying -- I've read places where people are saying, ‘well, this is not about race.’ If race is sort of -- if black people are the backbone of the Democratic Party and you're gerrymandering on a partisan basis for the Republicans, of course, it's about race. It's about diluting the black vote. That's 100 percent what it's about.

 

 

As they were nearing the commercial break, Hostin and Farah Griffin teamed up to call on Democrats to do more gerrymandering to eliminate Republican representation in other states:

HOSTIN: So, you know what I think Democrats need to do? They need to go to New York and get those extra seats. They need to redirect. They need to redirect in a couple of states -

FARAH GRIFFIN: Illinois

HOSTIN: - in New Jersey, Illinois, Maryland. Redirect, redirect. Get your 10 to 20 seats and then we will get the oversight that we do need! Because the Republicans are not playing fair, and now it's time to meet them where they are!

 

 

The former federal prosecutor also took a swipe at the Virginia Supreme Court by claiming the justice were working on behalf of Republicans. “What I do appreciate about the Democrats is they're finally realizing that the Republicans are not playing by the rules, that they're drafting their own rules … the Republicans decided to overturn the rule of the people,” she attempted to shout but her damaged throat kept her horse.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
May 11, 2026
11:02:46 a.m. Eastern

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: And then this happened, there was another seismic shift in voting rights last Friday after the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a redistricting map that had been approved by Virginia voters. Okay? They said, ‘this is what we want.’ They came and said, ‘no, that's not what you want, we changing it.’ So, the ruling now gives Republicans a big boost as we approach the midterms, and Democrats are a little pissed.

(…)

11:04:01 a.m. eastern

GOLDBERG: I mean, it's kind of crazy when the party says, ‘You know, we care about voters' rights and, you know, people are cheating and we are in there, we're going to make sure they don't,’ and then they kind of cheat. This feels like a cheat. So, how much is this ruling going to impact future elections?

It should remind everybody that your state makes the decision about what goes on. And what this is supposed to do is make you think, ‘Ugh, it's not even worth voting.’ It is always worth voting. It is always, always, always worth voting.

[Applause]

So, I'm sorry, go ahead.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I come from the place of I 100 percent always, any day of the week oppose partisan gerrymandering. I think it's bad for America. I think we talk a lot about democracy and the importance of representation. And I think when both sides get in the mud and decide to play nobody wins and both decide to get into this.

But here’s the problem with me, I think Ted Liu hit it in the clip. This was foreseeable. This was a technicality that the Supreme Court decided to get hung up on. He even kind of eludes to the fact that they maybe wouldn't have brought it up in the first place because it wouldn't pass.

And Donald Trump has been conveying for the last decade that he plans to do this, that he wanted state assemblies to redraw their congressional maps to create more Republican seats. What it becomes is a race to the bottom, and right now Trump and his team are playing three-dimensional chess and it feels like the Dems are just not playing that well.

In my opinion, no one should be doing it. I think it's bad. I’m going to reiterate that over and over. It's why you have hyper-polarized, partisan districts where you can't vote people out. But it just feels like Democrats once again getting out maneuvered and - I think it's why people throw up their hands and feel like their vote doesn't count.

SARA HAINES: Well, the issue here was the state Supreme Court though. When I first read the headline on the heels of the loss a week ago with the - Louisiana - when they used race - they said you can't use race when counting - and it felt like it was absolutely disenfranchising tons of voters. I went and saw the headline a thought, ‘here we go again!’ But then you read into the weeds on this one it actually -- it was foreseeable.

So, the lower courts had already ruled that this was not going to be able to pass and the Supreme Court of the state overruled it and said, ‘no, no, no, let it go forward.’ Courts are allowed to do that. The problem with that is the optics are awful right now, as we're watching partisan divide and gerrymandering!

And the thing I also noticed is, we talk often about how both parties do it. The difference is the Republicans often do it -- and this happened in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee -- they do it through the officials at the top, the GOP. When the Democrats have done it they at least throw it out to the people and say what do you think of this? And I tend to think if there is a lesser evil that's the one, you want the voters doing this.

ANA NAVARRO: And you see - So, the issue in this Virginia-specific issue is the Supreme Court. But the real issue here is that Donald Trump is a terrible precedent [sic] who most Americans disapprove of right now, his approval ratings are in the basement. He knows he's going to lose the House, so he started last year telling Texas expressly to redraw their congressional map.

So, I don't know that we should be both-siding this or I know we shouldn't be both-siding this because this would have never happened but for Texas being the first to draw blood and redistricting to give Republicans five new seats. Democrats have been left in a position of having to react to that first stupid thing and trying to catch up, which they are not doing and they just don't have the -- you know, they don't -- they just are not doing it.

But the reason this is happening is because Trump knows he's going to lose the House, which means that there will finally be oversight and accountability of the abuses of power by his misadministration. And that is why he's trying to change the rules in the middle of the game and give himself more Republican districts, and it's going be a backlash because the voters don't have to take it and are not going to take it.

And they can redraw everything, but they can't redraw is what voters do with their God-given right to vote. So, we're going to show up in record numbers and we're not going to let them rig these elections.

[Applause]

SUNNY HOSTIN: I hope that's true. I think it's tough when you do gerrymander. I think it's tough because you do dilute the black vote. And people are saying -- I've read places where people are saying, ‘well, this is not about race.’ If race is sort of -- if black people are the backbone of the Democratic Party and you're gerrymandering on a partisan basis for the Republicans, of course, it's about race. It's about diluting the black vote. That's 100 percent what it's about.

And when it comes to -- you say it's a race to the bottom. It is a race to the bottom but the Republicans started that race. They started that race in Texas and then they continued it and continued and continued it. And we just saw it in Tennessee. What I do appreciate about -

NAVARRO: And in Florida.

HOSTIN: And in Florida. What I do appreciate about the Democrats is they're finally realizing that the Republicans are not playing by the rules, that they're drafting their own rules and it's time for the Democrats to play by those new rules and that's what they have tried to do. So, instead of going, as Sara, you say, to sort of the top because they don't have a lot of states where they are -- especially in the south -- where they rule sort of the legislature, they decided to take it to the people. I think that's the right way to try to fight.

HAINES: Absolutely.

GOLDBERG: It’s the only way.

HOSTIN: You go to California, you go to Virginia and now the Republicans did something that I don't think the Democrats expected, the Republicans decided to overturn the rule of the people.

So, you know what I think Democrats need to do? They need to go to New York and get those extra seats. They need to redirect. They need to redirect in a couple of states -

FARAH GRIFFIN: Illinois

HOSTIN: - in New Jersey, Illinois, Maryland. Redirect, redirect. Get your 10 to 20 seats and then we will get the oversight that we do need! Because the Republicans are not playing fair, and now it's time to meet them where they are!

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