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‘He didn’t sweep the field’: Charlie Sykes explains why Trump is losing his grip on the GOP

A bevy of potential Republican presidential candidates stood up to challenge Donald Trump over the weekend, and anti-Trump conservative Charlie Sykes said there was something different this time.

Republicans with their own White House aspirations made clear at this weekend's Republican Jewish Coalition conference that the party should move on from the former president, who announced his 2024 campaign last week, and Sykes told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Trump's gambit had failed to pay off.

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'What planet is she on?' MSNBC's Mika shreds Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'crazy ignorant' Ukraine remarks

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) "willingly ignorant" comparison of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to immigration across the southern border of the U.S.

The Georgia Republican called for an audit of U.S. funding to Ukraine in its battle against Russian aggression, which she compared to the surge of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border under President Joe Biden.

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'The hatred for Kevin McCarthy is palpable': Reporter explains why knives are out for GOP leader

Republicans appear to have won a narrow House majority, but minority leader Kevin McCarthy faces a real challenge in becoming the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The California Republican has been working behind the scenes to secure the votes he'll need to take charge of the chamber, but Washington Post reporter Jacqueline Alemamany told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that other GOP lawmakers despise him.

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Morning Joe marvels at Herschel Walker's latest speech: 'Rambling incoherence taken to Olympian levels'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough reacted to Herschel Walker's bizarre diatribe about vampires and werewolves during a campaign speech.

The football legend-turned-Republican Senate candidate is facing off Dec. 6 in a runoff election against Sen. Rafael Warnock (D-GA), and he spoke for more than two minutes about a late-night movie he had recently watched, which prompted him to compare the relative strengths of the folkloric creatures.

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Trump in a 'no-win situation' with GOP donors as 2024 challengers emerge: Morning Joe

Former President Donald Trump has been written off before, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said this time feels different.

The former president announced his 2024 campaign this week, but several GOP megadonors have already said they would not support his White House bid, and several rivals are emerging as challengers for the Republican nomination.

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'Felt like he had a girdle on': Noted historian says Donald Trump's announcement came up lacking

Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was flabbergasted by Donald Trump's relentlessly negative announcement that he's entering the 2024 presidential race.

The former president announced Tuesday night from his Mar-a-Lago resort that he would seek the Republican nomination, and the famed historian told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that she'd never seen anyone who later won their election launch a campaign quite that way.

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'He doesn't have that power anymore': George Conway says Trump no longer has GOP's loyalty or fear

Donald Trump entered the 2024 presidential race, but George Conway said the Republican Party may not want him.

The former president announced Tuesday night that he would seek the GOP nomination for a third time, and Conway told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Trump had hollowed out a party that no longer needed him.

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MSNBC reporter unloads on Kari Lake now that her campaign has ended in defeat

MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard unloaded on Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake now that she has been projected as the loser.

The correspondent covered the race in his native Arizona for over a year, and he was clearly in the mood to drop his professional reservations a bit when he was asked by "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough to comment on the 2020 election conspiracist now that Democrat Katie Hobbs was declared the winner.

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'Welcome to Republicans in disarray': GOP tearing itself apart after Trump tanks another election

Republicans are pointing fingers after failing to produce a red wave in Tuesday's midterm elections, according to a former GOP lawmaker on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

Both the House and Senate remain in play, and a number of Donald Trump's endorsed candidates are losing, including Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake -- who questioned the results in her race and slammed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for taking the spotlight away from the former president.

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‘Enough is enough:’ GOP pollster Frank Luntz says voters just told Donald Trump to 'go away'

Republican pollster Frank Luntz analyzed the results of Tuesday's midterm elections to determine the message voters had sent.

The conditions were ripe for the GOP to take back majorities in both the House and Senate, but each remains in play for Democrats, and Luntz told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that voters are sick of the "chaos" that Donald Trump introduced to U.S. politics.

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'Schadenfreude bubble bath': Morning Joe says right-wing extremism cost GOP everything in Michigan

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said right-wing extremism had cost Republicans dearly in several states they could have won, especially in Michigan, and he was soaking in a "schadenfreude bubble bath."

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was re-elected, and Democrats kept the secretary of state and attorney general offices and, for the first time in four decades, gained majorities in both chambers of Michigan's state legislature, and the "Morning Joe" host said that was a direct response to the extreme views offered by the GOP alternatives in Tuesday's midterm election.

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'They want this guy gone': Morning Joe says all signs show Rupert Murdoch 'turned on' Trump

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said the knives are out for Donald Trump after the Republicans failed to produce a red wave.

The conditions were ripe for an overwhelming GOP midterm win, but the former president's enduring unpopularity and his poorly chosen endorsements dragged down the party among voters across the country, and the "Morning Joe" host pointed to signs that conservative media is turning on Trump.

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Morning Joe taunts 'angry' Trump supporters after Joe Biden beat him -- again

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said President Joe Biden has never looked stronger after Tuesday's midterm results.

Republicans had anticipated a red wave, with voter concerns about inflation, crime and Biden's presidency, but the "Morning Joe" host said the Democratic Party's surprisingly resilient performance would boost the president's standing on the international stage -- and against Donald Trump.

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