'He's lost a step': MS NOW analyst pinpoints skill Trump lost that's scaring Republicans

President Donald Trump has lost his ability to do one of the most important parts of his political formula, Vanity Fair's Molly Jong-Fast argued to MS NOW's Ari Melber on Tuesday's edition of "The Beat" — and it's causing his base to fall to pieces.

"So when heruns on, hey, one thing I'mgoing to do is lower prices orhave no forever wars or releasethe Epstein files — every lastbig promise, with the exception,perhaps, of hardlineimmigration, has beencontradicted," said Melber.

Jong-Fast concurred.

"And where we've seen Trump,I think, really lose a step is,if you look at like 2018 cominginto the midterms, even thoughhe didn't do well in themidterms and his party lost alot of seats, including in Iowa,where they lost three seats toDemocrats, which I think couldhappen again," said Jong-Fast. "If you look atthese polls, then he was stillable to sort of stay on message.It was different messages, butit was he was able to do it."

By contrast, she said, "now what you really see, and Ithink the thing that's reallyupsetting Republicans andreally scary for them, is thathe gets out there and he startstalking about the ballroom, orhe gets out there and he startstalking about painting ... thefountain in the WashingtonMonument. Like these are thingsthat are just unforced errors.Like if he were with it, hecould go out there and say,look at what we're doing. We'retaking down the gas tax. Now the gas tax happens to only be18 cents and gas is up like adollar a gallon. But he couldat least point to somethingthat was a talking point."

"Andwhat you see with MAGA is whenMAGA starts to get in trouble,they can't message succinctly,like when they are when they'rein their sweet spot," Jong-Fast added. "They have,like, messaging discipline likeyou can't believe. And whathappens when they start to getinto trouble is that they're messaging all different things,right?"

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