MSNBC's Joe Scarborough marveled that the Republican Party was once again hitching their wagon to "seven-time loser" Donald Trump.
The quadruple-indicted, twice-impeached former president is the clear frontrunner in the GOP primary three years after some leading Republicans denounced him for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection, and the "Morning Joe" host said he would likely lead them into another losing election cycle.
"I still can't figure out, listening to you talk about the Republican Party being different," Scarbourgh said. "I still can't figure out, even though we talk about it all the time, but I talk about it all the time because I can't figure it out. It used to be if you were a Republican and you lost, 'Hope you had a good ride, there's the door, get out, we have to move forward without you.'"
"It is just beyond me how they embrace a seven-time loser, and they embrace a seven-time loser who, again, I know we have polls showing right now that he is doing well," Scarborough added. "Lots of luck when people start focusing on this race, lots of luck. I still -- that is a great mystery to me, too. How could a party continue to embrace a guy that loses and makes them lose?"
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Trump has given Republicans plenty of opportunities to move on without him, said co-host Willie Geist, but they have only moved closer to him.
"How many moments has he given them to walk away?" Geist said. "They could have said now he's gone too far. You talk about Barry Goldwater. I'm thinking what if after Jan. 6, when Lindsey Graham was pounding the podium saying, 'You got to go, it is over.' Instead of 24 hours later beginning the rehab of Donald Trump. [Kevin] McCarthy going to Mar-a-Lago and standing by his side. That was the big moment, but it wasn't the only moment when they could have walked away."
Republicans still have a chance to cut the cord, Scarborough said, but they're instead ceding the GOP nomination to Trump after just two primary contests.
"They have another moment now with Nikki Haley, despite senators lying and saying now it is a black-and-white choice between Joe Biden or Donald Trump, they still have somebody out there that they could support," Scarborough said.
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