So Sad! CNN's Morning Host Cornish 'Has to Admit' GOP Feeling Good On Redistricting

On Tuesday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish, formerly of NPR, kicked off a redistricting segment with a classic tell of her liberal bias: 

“I have to admit, Republicans are feeling good now.” 

We feel your pain, Audie!

When Republican panelist Ashley Davis noted that former Obama AG Eric Holder raised $100 million in 2017 to do the same thing to Republican seats, Cornish shot back: “Yeah, but did he get seats?” and openly pined, “I wish he had the scorecard, and I’m sure he wishes he had the scorecard you’re talking about.” Davis mentioned Obama's Illinois, but liberal journalists never seem to acknowledge blue-state gerrymandering.

Cornish played a clip of comedian D.L. Hughley calling for black college athletes to boycott the SEC:  “If you can’t run in a state, you shouldn’t run in a state.” Cornish cheered it with: “I thought that was a great way to put it.” 

Speaking of black athletes "running" in an SEC state, Herschel Walker, one of the greatest running backs in SEC history, got 90%+ of the Republican vote while receiving under 10% from Democrats in his 2022 senatorial run in Georgia.

CNN's Aaron Blake referred to “African American districts.” Message to Aaron: In the US, we should never think of districts as belonging to any identity group. But they like the racial gerrymandering.

Cornish justified the Voting Rights Act by claiming white voters “did not traditionally vote for non-white candidates." That might have been true 61 years ago when the VRA was adopted. But even Audie had to put her complaint in the past tense. Because it's not so today. See Herschel Walker, above, not to mention Tim Scott and Byron Donalds, among others.

Cornish closed with this fact-mangling question: "And is the Republican party positioning itself, even for the very next election, to not be able to combat all of the criticism it had gotten for its complete and total lack of diversity, and now, arguably, hostility to black and brown voters?"

Note to Audie: Republicans are not hostile to racial groups--they're simply not huge fans of voters who overwhelmingly support Democrats!

Grudging admission of GOP gains. Selective both-sidesism. Race-baiting endorsement. Full liberal-media meltdown in under four minutes: nicely done, Audie!

Cornish kept Democrat hopes alive by speculating, "Is there a chance, however, that this [GOP redistricting] could backfire?"

Here's the transcript.

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CNN This Morning
5-12-26
6:12 am EDT

AUDIE CORNISH: Yet another state, this time Alabama, now poised to redraw its congressional maps, after an order by the Supreme Court clears the way for the state to vote on those new maps. So the Supreme Court decision will allow state lawmakers in Alabama to essentially erase a majority-minority district, and it puts another House congressional seat firmly in Republican control. 

Now, this move tilts the redistricting push even further in favor of Republicans. Is there a chance, however, that this could backfire?

KARL ROVE: In the South, where you take these large blacks-dominated cities like New Orleans, or rural areas like in South Carolina that are dominated by blacks and who are traditionally Democrat voters, and split them up into several different Republican districts and make things more problematic in a swing year. But that, you know, nothing ever plays out exactly in politics as we think it does.

CORNISH: We’re gonna come to you, Chuck, ’cause I know this is the only thing that is in your group chat. However, you have been writing about this, and I wanna come to you because that was Karl Rove saying things don’t always work out the way you think. And I have to admit, Republicans are feeling good now, right? The Supreme Court has told them, listen, partisan redistricting is fine, and they’re jumping on it like left and right.

AARON BLAKE: Yeah, what’s really interesting here is after the Supreme Court's decision — that one pertains specifically to Louisiana. It kind of left in limbo what would happen in some of these other southern states. So I see this move by the Supreme Court as kind of blessing these other states to do what Louisiana wanted to do --

CORNISH: So do they!

BLAKE: -- which is carve up these African American districts, these majority black districts. And that really opens things up for Republicans to take apart these districts.

. . . 

ASHLEY DAVIS: I think the whole redistricting is not a great idea, and I said that during Virginia with the Democrats. I would say it going back to when Eric Holder did this in 2017. I just don’t think it’s a good — 

CORNISH: Did Eric Holder do this? 

DAVIS: Well, he raised a hundred million dollars to take Republican seats away. 

CORNISH: Yeah, but did he get seats? We’re showing new maps here. 

DAVIS: Well, he did — I mean, we’re not showing in Illinois. I don’t know --

CORNISH: I wish he had the scorecard, and I’m sure he wishes he had the scorecard you’re talking about. But that’s not where Republicans are right now, they are benefiting. 

One other thing, you had D.L. Hughley, a comdedian, saying, I've got an idea: maybe these major college athletes, black athletes, should boycott participation in the SEC. Maybe they should not go to those schools. Here’s how he explained it.

D.L. HUGHLEY: I think the only thing these people understand is a loss of income, and I think the clearest way to do it, I think if these four and five star athletes, they need to understand they are contributing to a system that only wants to erode the situations they have. If you can’t run in a state, you shouldn’t run in a state.

CORNISH: I thought that was a great way to put it. In part because there’s been an exit of Black Republicans from the Congressional House Caucus, and I think people forget the Voting Rights Act, when they talk about representation, it’s because white voters did not traditionally vote for non-white candidates, period. It wasn’t just black voters are gonna vote for black candidates, it’s white voters didn’t vote for anyone but white candidates. 

And is the Republican party positioning itself, even for the very next election, to not be able to combat all of the criticism it had gotten for its complete and total lack of diversity, and now, arguably, hostility to black and brown voters?