How pathetic was Joe Scarborough’s determined try to downplay the scope of Trump’s victory? The very best Scarborough might do was to repeatedly cite a state that Trump gained! A state Trump flipped, after dropping it in 2020!
On at this time’s Morning Joe, Scarborough repeatedly relied on the leads to Wisconsin to make his flimsy case. Scarborough harped on Trump profitable Wisconsin by “lower than 1%” [the margin was 0.9%.] Scarborough conveniently ignored that Trump had misplaced the state by 0.7% in 2020, thus enhancing by 1.6%.
Scarborough tried to bolster his case by twice mentioning that on the identical day Trump carried Wisconsin, voters there additionally re-elected “a lesbian Democratic senator.” (Tammy Baldwin gained by 0.8 % over a first-time candidate.)
Discussing nationwide developments, Scarborough mockingly referred to Trump’s “1% landslide.”
However Scarborough once more ignored the larger image. Because the New York Occasions reported, within the November election, “all 50 states had shifted proper.” And on a extra granular degree, “Greater than 89 % of counties in america shifted in favor” of Trump, who “improved on his 2020 margin in 2,793 counties. His margin decreased in solely 319 counties.” This occurred regardless of every kind of MSNBC-boosted lawfare in opposition to Trump.
So hold whistling previous the graveyard, Joe. what they are saying about individuals who ignore historical past.
This is the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
12/18/24
6:07 am ETJOE SCARBOROUGH: Proper now, they’re on this bubble. They gained. And so all these Republicans are working round performing like they’d a mandate. They gained by one share level. They gained Wisconsin by lower than one share level.
Let me simply say, and I used to be speaking about this on the present yesterday. Everyone must take a deep breath. Everyone must take a deep breath. As a result of persons are going, oh, that is the age of Elon. Oh, that is the age of the bro tradition. Oh, America has darted so for proper.
Let’s take Wisconsin, the bellwether states of bellwether states. Kamala Harris misplaced by lower than one share level due to the bro tradition, proper? Flawed. They elected a lesbian lady as senator on this similar day.
The identical factor with Michigan. Oh, the bro tradition. No, they elected a lady senator the identical day that Kamala Harris misplaced by one and a half factors. A girl who was working the shortest presidential marketing campaign in American historical past, proper?
So, all I am saying is right here we’re, all people’s over-reading this. Everyone’s saying, you understand, it is like, sackcloth and ashes for Democrats. Oh, we have got to vary all the pieces. Whoa, this was the best defeat within the historical past — No, no, there is not any sweeping change right here so far as what the American individuals mentioned. It is like one share level.
And are available January twentieth, you begin insurance policies. In the event that they attempt to dart too for one course or the opposite, we’ll see what occurred within the first time period. Democratic wins in ’17, ’18, ’19, and ’20. Everyone must be very cautious to not overread the 1% landslide.
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Effectively, Eddie, discuss concerning the hazard of Democrats overreacting to a 1% landslide. And once more, I discuss Wisconsin. I simply need to hold going again. As a result of all people’s over-reading this as some radical swing to the far proper. The place in Wisconsin, Kamala Harris misplaced by lower than one share level, and the Wisconsin voters re-elected a lesbian Democratic senator.
