Despite Trump’s Goading, White House Fails to ‘Booby-Trap’ Governors

The National Governors Association’s Winter Meeting in Washington usually unfolds like most regular gatherings of state government leaders: breaking bread, all-together-now speechifying, and meeting up to find best practices that can travel between Republican and Democratic states. Outside of reporters, policy nerds, and companies finagling state contracts, the governors’ public meetings operate way under the radar for most of the city’s movers and shakers.

Except for this year. States’...