Thursday morning’s Morning Joe offered another prime example of what leftists apparently think of the average voter. Apparently it’s a bad thing when elected officials and candidates for political office actually listen to voters and keep their thoughts in mind. This learning moment came when MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough and liberal “Republican” and Bulwark podcast host Charlie Sykes were whining and moaning about how Republican leaders won’t move on from Trump.
“You’ve got people who are running to lose,” Scarborough proclaimed. “They see the numbers, they know they're gonna lose and these politicians,” he added.
Scarborough then made the gruesome analogy of a doctor ignoring cancer that’s found inside a patient: “It's almost like a doctor that opens up a patient to see if they have cancer, finds it all over their body, closes the body and tells the patient, you're fine. You're good. You're going out. Clean bill of health. Enjoy yourself. When the doctor knows what's gonna happen. This is what Republican leaders are doing now. They know they're going to lose with Trump.”
“They're not leaders, they're followers of the base and they've been doing this for seven years and many of them know obviously that they're gonna lose with Trump but they’re also afraid they will lose without Trump,” Sykes responded.
Sykes sneered that the Republican base “is so rabidly behind the cult leader that if Donald Trump is defeated or pushed aside, they're worried that those voters won't turn out and vote.”
“So they have to figure out how do you push past Donald Trump without antagonizing his base and nobody has figured that out yet,” he added.
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The transcript is below:
MSNBC’s Morning Joe
8/17/2023
6:20:03 a.m. EasternJOE SCARBOROUGH: And now you’ve got people who are running to lose. They see the numbers, they know they're gonna lose and these politicians, you know, it's almost like a doctor that opens up a patient to see if they have cancer, finds it all over their body, closes the body and tells the patient, you're fine. You're good. You're going out. Clean bill of health. Enjoy yourself. When the doctor knows what's gonna happen. This is what Republican leaders are doing now. They know they're going to lose with Trump.
CHARLIE SYKES: Well, they have two problems, number one, they're not leaders, they're followers of the base and they've been doing this for seven years and many of them know obviously that they're gonna lose with Trump but they’re also afraid they will lose without Trump. I mean, this is the corner they've put themselves in. They've got a base that is so rabidly behind the cult leader that if Donald Trump is defeated or pushed aside, they're worried that those voters won't turn out and vote. So they have to figure out how do you push past Donald Trump without antagonizing his base and nobody has figured that out yet. But I do think, you know, to your previous questions, I think the debate in Milwaukee next week is going to be kind of interesting. By the way, Joe, I totally agree with you, I don't think Donald Trump’s gonna show up. But we'll see whether or not, you know, there is a response to this massive reality check from the other candidates, whether Tim Scott actually wants to run for president or wants to run for vice president, because if there's going to be a pivot, it's hard to imagine that it doesn't happen relatively soon.
