Morning Joe smacks Mike Johnson's 'weird spin' after 'Trump cost GOP another election'
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough busted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for trying to spin the Republican Party's loss of another seat in New York's special election.
The GOP majority shrunk after Democrat Tom Suozzi won back the seat formerly held by Republican George Santos, who was expelled following multiple ethics scandals and criminal indictments, and Johnson insisted that Democrats had underperformed and ran to the right on immigration – but the "Morning Joe" host was unpersuaded.
"Basically, what he is saying there is, Republicans don't have enough money, Republicans don't know how to organize when it snows, and Republicans don't know how to run on the right issues," Scarborough said. "Doesn't sound like a great vote of confidence. He sounds -- I mean, that approach suggests that the candidates are just as confused as Mike Johnson is. I think I saw a Politico story the past day or two that a lot of Republicans are just saying he's winging it. This is just kind of chaos around here."
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Sam Stein, the deputy managing editor for politics at Politico, joked that Tuesday's snow strategically targeted polling locations.
"No, weird spin," Stein said. "Yeah, it does feel like, look, there's been a string of these defeats. Obviously, you can't say one special election is going to tell you everything about the political climate, but this isn't just one special election. I mean, on the same night, there was a statehouse election in Pennsylvania. We saw, obviously, a string of other special elections, the 2023 elections. All these down-ballot races -- not all of them but almost all of them, have really broken in the Democratic favor, especially since the Dobbs decision. Now, in this case, the border bill obviously played a big role, but, you know, if you were the Republicans, you came out of this over the past two years, year and a half, and you looked at the totality of the results, you'd say, 'Okay, we need to sort of course correct in some significant way, but that's not what is happening on the Hill.' If anything, they're saying, 'We need to continue doing what we're doing and dismiss this as isolated incidents.' There is no introspection from leadership, they're tying themselves closer to [Donald] Trump, who is the one saying to kill the border deal because I want the issue in play."
Scarborough agreed, saying the former president had once again cost his party an election win.
"Whoever saw this coming?" Scarborough said. "Donald Trump cost Republicans another election. It was Donald Trump's cynicism the Wall Street Journaltalks about, once again that costs Republicans elections. 'Joe, why are you being so mean?' I'm not, I'm trying to help – I'm here, right? I'm here. I'm trying to fix your house, it's structurally unsound, and you won't let me do it. So you keep losing."
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