Trump is being placed in 'bubble wrap' to keep him from 'babbling': Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough urged Nikki Haley to open up a new line of attack against "snowflake" Donald Trump ahead of the South Carolina primary.

The former president easily won both contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, but Haley performed better than expected in the latter primary and clearly infuriated Trump by remaining in the race, and the "Morning Joe" host said the former South Carolina governor has exposed a major weakness.

"Her home state, and she is going to be there for a month, and he is afraid to debate her," Scarborough said. "That's something she should say every day. Why is Donald Trump scared of me? I would say why is he being a snowflake, afraid he is going to melt on stage? The thing is, he is showing extreme weakness, and I mean, I think it's fair for her to ask. Are his handlers keeping him away from the debate stage because they are scared he will go out and once again forget what decade this is? Forget who he is running against? Forget that World War II ended in 1945? Forget that Nancy Pelosi was speaker of the house on Jan. 6, not Nikki Haley? Forget that Joe Biden is president of the United States and not Barack Obama? I mean, they are scared. They are scared because they think that they have to bubble wrap him because he will do so badly on the debate stage. She does need to bring that up every single day."

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"There's no reason for her to get out of the race, whether she takes him head on in South Carolina and is very competitive, or whether she fights the war of attrition," Scarborough added. "Again, he is scared, like, everybody take note in the Republican Party. Donald Trump is scared to debate Nikki Haley. In MAGA land, let me put it to you this way – you're a big boy, you big man, he's afraid of a woman. He's afraid to debate a woman. He calls her bird brain. If she's bird brain, then why doesn't he go up on the stage? You know why. He's going to start babbling about Nikki Haley being speaker of the House and babbling about Barack Obama and World War II and start babbling about windmills and babbling about really weird things, and let's just face it, I think the people around him have decided Donald Trump is just not up to this anymore. We are going to try to hide him, we are going to keep him off the debate stage because Nikki Haley would bury him alive."

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