The races in New Jersey and Virginia are making Democrats nervous.
New Jersey, with their gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill, is neck and neck. Virginia has gotten closer, particularly given Democratic candidate for governor Abigail Spanberger's missteps.
But instead of looking at why their candidates are having problems in those races, the Morning Joe team had a theory. They implied it's because Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill are women.
Morning Joe: The reason Abigail Spanberger is struggling is because Americans are sexist; "other countries have no problem electing women" pic.twitter.com/3CmMLhQKKD
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 22, 2025
Listen as Mika Brzezinski gushes about the Democratic women, including Sherrill and "all the different jobs she has held, in the military." Sherrill was a Navy officer and is an attorney. "These women are incredible! To them, I would say, 'Fight! Fight! Fight! Because we need them!"
Co-host Jonathan Lemire then implied that the problem was because they were women, saying that Democrats had grappled with this in the prior elections, losing after nominating Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and not falling into "that same misogynistic trap." Then Mika bemoans the situation, "Other countries have no problem electing women!"
Um, guys? We have had all kinds of women elected in this country. The issue with these candidates isn't that they're women - it's because of the problems of these particular individuals, from Spanberger to Hillary Clinton. Clinton had a long history of scandals. Harris had a long history of word salads and an inability to say what she would do that would benefit anyone. Spanberger can't even deal with whether she would disavow someone she'd endorsed after his vile texts were exposed.
It's also funny that Democrats are talking about women. Have they figured out what a woman is yet?
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Then, too, what was truly funny was that they were bemoaning Spanberger having trouble for being a woman, but her opponent is also a woman, Winsome Earle-Sears.
Uh, isn’t she running against a woman? https://t.co/4AxIWSyubE
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) October 23, 2025
Earle-Sears chided them in response.
Who wants to tell them? https://t.co/oYIEsTA8dF
— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 22, 2025
Um, I think it's pretty safe to say that Virginia is going to elect a woman governor. I don't know if Spanberger can tell you what a woman is, but I think Earle-Sears can. Plus, there's that "military" background Mika spoke of with Sherrill. Earle-Sears was a Marine and had a variety of interesting jobs. Notice Mika doesn't mention that.
Democrats pull out these excuses, even when they don't even make any sense, when they should be looking at why these candidates are deficient and why they fail. They should be evaluating the issues they have in their party and why they have lost so many voters. Their problems aren't because the candidates are women.
Most of it is because the Democrats have lost the plot about what matters to the American people.
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