Wait, What? MSNBC Mitchell Claims Embattled Democrat Brenda Snipes Is A Republican

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell mistakenly labeled Brenda Snipes a Republican on her show Monday.Show more

Snipes, Broward County’s embattled Supervisor of Elections, may have been appointed by former Florida Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, but when she ran for re-election in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016, she ran as a Democrat.

Mitchell appeared to be steering the narrative away from the concern that Snipes might be intentionally tipping the scales in favor of Democrats, saying, “We should also point out that Brenda Snipes in Broward County is a Republican appointed by former governor … Jeb Bush. So she was put in by a Republican governor after the mess that we all remember from 2000. And she’s hardly a Democratic official, or someone doing the bidding of the Democratic candidates there.”