Trump should be 'hiding under the sheets' from 'flashing red lights': Morning Joe
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned that Donald Trump was in more danger in the Republican presidential primary than he might realize.
The former president easily beat challenger Nikki Haley once again, this time in Michigan, but his former U.N. ambassador intends to remain in the race until the March 5 "Super Tuesday" primary, and the "Morning Joe" host said there were clear "warning signs" in Tuesday's GOP primary results.
"This is simple, it's open primaries versus closed primaries, and we've been saying all along this election is going to be won not across the fruited plains of America, it's going to be won in the suburbs of Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee," Scarborough said. "We have in Detroit, again, I don't know, maybe people that run for office and are basically three-time incumbents, basically. Maybe they're happy losing 45 percent of their own party's vote in one county in the suburbs and 33 percent in another, but I will tell you, I would be like -- I would be hiding under the sheets if I were a politician and those were the results the next day in the area I have to win, to win Michigan and win the presidency."
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"These are flashing red lights for Donald Trump, and these people can whistle past the graveyard all they want, they can insult Nikki Haley all they want, Donald Trump can talk about how badly he's going to beat Barack Obama in the fall all he wants. These aren't good numbers," Scarborough added.
Haley performed strongly in the Michigan suburbs – and even cut the margin from 44.7 percent to 49.9 percent in Washtenaw County, just southwest of Detroit – and Scarborough believes her attacks on the quadruple-indicted former president were resonating with voters.
"Since Donald Trump came on the scene in June 2015, you have a Republican doing something no other Republican has done," Scarborough said. "Give Nikki Haley her due. She should have done this before, that before, but Nikki Haley is taking the incoming from Donald Trump, as Barack Obama would motion [brushing dust off his shoulder], she's doing that, and she's going state by state by state. This is something Marco Rubio was too much of a coward to do, this is something Rand Paul was too much of a coward to do – we can take it through 2024. Nikki Haley is keeping her head down and saying, 'I'm going to keep going, I'm going to keep going harder at him and let's see what happens.' Donald Trump hasn't had to deal with that yet in his political career."
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