This past week, several MSNBC hosts pushed a sore loser narrative that the Republican House majority was won because of “rigged” congressional districts, with one host even claiming Republicans had been “cheating basically.”
After Joe Scarborough first started pushing the “rigged” election line on Tuesday by invoking gerrymandering, fellow hosts Nicolle Wallace, Lawrence O’Donnell and Chris Hayes joined him on Wednesday after outgoing Democrat Congressman Wiley Nickel published an op-ed in The News & Observer complaining about North Carolina Republicans redrawing his home state’s districts, and Jonathan Capehart jumped in on Friday night.
And, even though Republicans are heavily short-changed by California’s district maps, O’Donnell spoke of the liberal state as if it were a model for how districts should be drawn.
On Wednesday, as Morning Joe covered the issue for a second day,…
