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Reacting to new polling showing Donald Trump losing older voters to President Joe Biden by a stunning margin, the panel on MSNBNC's "Morning Joe" suggested the former president is scaring away a key voting block he needs in his third bid for the Oval Office.

Noting that in the new poll, Biden leads 60 percent to 39 percent among voters over 65, the panel agreed that Trump's attacks on Biden's age may be a major factor along with the chaos that always accompanies Trump is scaring off older voters.

A legal expert identified a "major mistake" made by the judge overseeing Donald Trump's fraud trial, and she predicted that won't be repeated by other courts.

The former president had hoped to deliver at least part of his own closing argument at the conclusion of the New York fraud trial, but Judge Arthur Engoron blocked that plan after Trump and his lawyers rejected some limits the judge would have imposed.

Former President Donald Trump tried to walk back his past vows to use the presidency to enact vengeance upon his enemies on Wednesday night -- but New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman argued that might be harder to do than he believes.

Appearing on CNN, Haberman sounded a skeptical note of any Trump effort to "pivot" to a more moderate tone given his lengthy record of trying to gain retribution against his political foes and critics.

The hosts of "Morning Joe" pounced all over Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on Thursday morning for her antics during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday that led to her having a meltdown when she was challenged by Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL).

Mace, known for her attention-seeking ways including accusations she "obsesses extensively about her public image and demands a 'quota' of time she should be appearing on TV," flew into a rage on Wednesday after seeing Hunter Biden sitting in the gallery and demanded he be arrested.

Reacting to answers Donald Trump gave during a "softball" town hall on Fox News on Wednesday night, the entire "Morning Joe' staff was stunned by what co-host Joe Scarborough called an "incredible political mistake" made by the former president.

After showing a clip of Trump bragging about his part in overturning Roe v. Wade — a political minefield for GOP lawmakers — the hosts said the former president didn't do his third campaign for president any favors.

"He bragged about 'terminating' Roe v. Wade. He said, 'If it weren't for me, that 10-year-old girl in Ohio that an illegal immigrant raped, if it weren't for me, she wouldn't have had to flee the state. If it weren't for me, women wouldn't be, like, dying outside of emergency rooms because doctors are afraid to conduct women's health care,'" Scarborough explained. "He admitted — again, it was such an easy forum, it's not like he was backed into the corner — he admitted he was the one who terminated Roe v. Wade. What did the Biden people do last night? They're just hanging out. They were probably laughing at all the Republican chaos in the debate."

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"He's grown so old and hobbled intellectually, I guess," he added. "He thinks he is running against Barack Obama, he's worried about World War II starting."

"Even in the most gentle of circumstances, he made an incredible political mistake, and he knows it this morning— he knows it," he elaborated. "Incredible political mistake last night. 'I was the one who terminated Roe v. Wade. I was the one, just me, nobody else could have stripped away 50 years of women's rights the way I, Donald Trump, did."'

Shaking his head he added, "The old man did it again."

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee expressed outrage Wednesday after Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) noted that former President Donald Trump associated with Jeffrey Epstein.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing about Hunter Biden, Moskowitz reacted to sex trafficking concerns brought up by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).