'We're seeing Trump flail': Morning Joe delights as consequences catch up

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" mocked Donald Trump and other Republicans who are now "flailing" to contain the political fallout from the Arizona Supreme Court decision to reinstate a Civil War-era ban on abortion.

The former president issued a statement Monday boasting about his role in overturning Roe v. Wade but insisting that reproductive rights should be left to the states to decide, and host Joe Scarborough said that widely unpopular ruling was just another arrow in President Joe Biden's quiver to use against Trump.

"We talk about trend lines, the trend lines are all breaking Joe Biden's way," Scarborough said. "I mean, if you look at the top of Drudge, if you're Trump, you'd probably jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. He's, like, 'MAGA meltdown,' talking about the polls breaking in Joe Biden's way, but they are. I mean, trend lines are pretty strong for Biden coming out of the -- again, still coming out of the State of the Union."

The Biden campaign has been hammering Trump with his own words to remind voters of his erratic behavior, and those examples and the looming criminal trials seem to be chipping away at his public support.

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"It is, again, a constant drum beat, not just of what Donald Trump is saying, but, for the first time, what the Biden campaign is saying about Trump," Scarborough said. "If you still go down X or go down Threads, I mean, I think the Biden campaign is putting out Donald Trump's own words, like, every 15 minutes, it's brutal. Every single one of those messages, I mean, any swing voter would look at and cringe."

Biden's former White House chief of staff Ron Klain made news earlier this week when he faulted the president for focusing too much campaign energy on infrastructure instead of kitchen-table economic issues, but MSNBC host and Politico White House bureau chief Jonathan Lemire said the former president faced even greater challenges in his own campaign messaging.

"Klain gave a speech the other night saying that the president had been too focused on infrastructure, and that was just his flippant way of [saying] it, about bridges, and he was saying he needs to be more focused on consumer prices and costs, and yesterday the inflation numbers suggest that maybe he has a point," Lemire said. "But I think the White House pushback to that was immediate, and said, 'Well, look, the infrastructure, first of all, A, that's something that Americans need, and, B, it shows we can get things done in a bipartisan fashion. That should be part of our message, we need to sell the record of accomplishments, not just saying, hey, we're not Donald Trump.'"

"But they're not Donald Trump," Lemire added. "The abortion headlines of the last week or so, as well, strengthens the president's case. We're seeing Trump flail. We saw it yesterday as he tried to explain what he means."

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