by Kerry Dougherty

It’s worse than we thought.

Abigail Spanberger is in deep trouble. She’s not only squandered almost all of the goodwill that came with her election but there’s more.

Sitting down?

She’s lost The Washington Post.

In a Tuesday editorial that attempted to explain the new governor’s plummeting poll numbers, The Post accused her of being a spineless hypocrite and a tool of the radical elements in her party.

Worse, they accuse Spanberger of compromising public safety with her executive order that ended cooperation with ICE and of being complicit in a redistricting power grab “she knew to be wrong.”

The honeymoon ended quickly because Spanberger allowed herself to become the face of a hyper-partisan power grab that she knew to be wrong. The governor signed off on a proposed map that will give her party a 10-1 edge in the state’s congressional delegation if voters approve an April 21 referendum. There are currently six Democrats and five Republicans, which is fair in a blue-leaning swing state.

This has turned off independents and repulsed moderate Republicans who helped her win three competitive congressional races. Spanberger has come across as a hypocrite, one of the characteristics voters most dislike about politicians. Commercials and mailers highlight her past support for the 2020 constitutional amendment she’s now trying to unravel and previous condemnations of the tactics she’s now employing.

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