SCOTT JENNINGS HUMILIATES FORMER DAILY BEAST EDITOR OVER GERRYMANDERING AND RACE:

Jennings pointed out that African American members of Congress have been winning in majority-white districts across the country, which tells us that the justifications for majority-minority districts are no longer valid.

That set off another round of crosstalk, with Neera Tanden jumping in and Ana Navarro noting that the four black Republican members of Congress were all leaving — as if that matters or negates the point.

“Well, they ran for other offices,” Jennings pointed out.

Then Avlon, perhaps sensing the argument slipping away from him, reached for a historical data point. “We haven’t had an African-American Republican governor since Reconstruction,” he said, throwing it out like a trump card.

But Jennings was ready.

“Republicans tried to elect one in Virginia,” he shot back.

Avlon, clearly flustered, was practically speechless.

But then Jennings came in with the kill shot: “Then you got a white Democrat who gerrymandered the state.”

Everyone knew that Jennings had nailed him, and so Sara Sidner, who was guest-hosting the show, cut to a break, declaring, “Everything is crumbling clearly at this table.”

California could have had a black Republican governor as well in 2021, but the Los Angles Times thought that would be awfully racist: “Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned.”