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A conservative commentator ran into pushback for justifying Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election by claiming that Democrats have also disputed losing results.

J.D. Vance denied that his running mate lost that election, flatly stating "no" when asked by a reporter in Pennsylvania, and a former 2020 Trump campaign staffer minimized the importance of the Republican vice presidential nominee questioning the results from the previous contest.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday morning, former U.S. Naval War College professor and current Atlantic columnist Tom Nichols expressed his dismay with the MAGA supporters of Donald Trump for not taking American elections seriously.

According to the conservative writer, Trump's fans are more invested in being entertained than they are in seeing the lives bettered and are happy to gloss over the fact that he is increasingly "unstable."

Speaking with the "Morning Joe" hosts, he was asked why the election is still "neck and neck" with Vice President Kamala Harris in the polls.

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"You know, it's such a sad question because I think the answer is that, over the past 30, 40 years, there are millions of people who just stopped taking elections seriously," he grimly admitted.

"There are millions of people who think that what they really want is to renew four years of the Donald Trump show," he elaborated. "They know he's unstable, they know he's weird, they know that he's losing it. "That's part of his appeal to them -- that he's interesting. It's fun."

"I think the other thing we really have to understand is that, you know, we talk about polarization, but this is more than polarization," he added. "This is 60, 70 million people saying, the worse Donald Trump gets, the better. Then, when he is elected, that's really going to discomfort and aggravate and frighten, you know, the other 100 million people in America."

"Every time I look at this election, I think of the Trump voter some years ago who criticized Trump by saying he's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting," he recalled.

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During a discussion on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on the dueling interviews of Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Wednesday, co-host Jonathan Lemire singled out an admission by the former president on the Jan. 6 insurrection that appears to have gone unnoticed.

Speaking with co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Wilie Geist, Lemire first praised Harris' performance on Fox News where she faced an abrasive Bret Baier, telling the panel, "The Harris people I spoke to in the aftermath of the interview said it showed real toughness. They love that she was able to say things to Fox News viewers who wouldn't normally hear them. It's not a coincidence; this interview happened hours after she appeared with a dozen of Republicans, lawmakers who are supporting her."

Turning back to Trump, he pointed to a clip of the former president appearing at a Univision town hall where he was asked about the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 MAGA riot that followed.

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As the obviously fuming Lemire explained, "Mika, one more note about Donald Trump yesterday, the clip we played about January 6th, talking about 'we,' as he always talks about, uses the word 'we' when he talks about the January 6th rioters."

"He said, 'we were there peacefully, they had the guns," he reported. "The 'they'? They were Capitol police officers –– that shows you Donald Trump's framing of January 6th."

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