Morning Joe shames Trump for 'hiding' as Harris works to turn his 'strength into weakness'
October 14, 2024
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out Donald Trump for "hiding" from voters in the closing weeks of the election.
The former president has refused to release his medical records or debate Kamala Harris a second time, and he wouldn't sit for a "60 Minutes" interview, as every other major party candidate has done since 1968. The vice president has chided him for "not being transparent with the voters," although the "Morning Joe" host questioned whether that has hurt his chances.
"There's also this frustration inside the Harris campaign that nothing matters, it seems, when it comes to Donald Trump," Scarborough said. "He doesn't release his medical records, every other presidential candidate does. There's really not even that much of a fuss about it. He doesn't do the '60 Minutes' interview, the first time in 50 years a presidential candidate doesn't do the '60 Minutes' interview — he ducks that. Then he says that CBS should be arrested, people at CBS should be arrested for '60 Minutes' editing an interview the way '60 Minutes' always edits interviews.
"Then, of course, he refuses to do the second debate, even if it's at Fox News."
"So it does seem that he is hiding," Scarborough added, "and so she drives it home with, it's like they're afraid he's too weak and too unstable to do his job, to go out there."
Harris told rallygoers in North Carolina that Trump was "only focused on himself," and MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire said that his refusal to appear outside his safe spaces helped underline her point.
"She's been effective at needling him, finding his sore, weak spots, one of which, let's remember the debate, almost seemed like a throwaway line, though we've since been told it was well practiced, where she noted that people leave Trump's rallies early," Lemire said.
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"Donald Trump hasn't given a speech since then where he doesn't try to rebut that. 'People don't leave my speeches early.' That was a sign to the people in the Harris campaign that she can effectively needle him, put him on the territory where she wants to compete. She's doing it again now, trying to turn one of his strengths, much like his crowds, his suggestion of his strength, and turn it into weakness, having to defend it, undercut it.
"Actually, he's afraid to do an interview, he is afraid to release his medical records. Tying that with the overall theme, which is, Trump makes every decision about himself, not about you, the voter."
"He's shielding you, he doesn't want to give you this information — he doesn't trust you," Lemire added. "He's not looking out for you, and that is her argument right now as Trump simply goes darker and darker on the campaign trail."
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