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‘Election deniers got pounded last night!’ Morning Joe crows about Trump allies dragging down GOP

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough crowed over the Republican Party's failure to produce a red wave.

Republicans expected to win overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate, but instead they eked out narrow wins and saw some of Donald Trump's hand-picked conspiracy theorists lose their races, and the "Morning Joe" host said the former president was a drag on his party's chances.

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Morning Joe profanely slams 'frightening and terrible' Kari Lake's threats against democracy

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough gave a hilariously overwrought and profane takedown of Republican candidate Kari Lake's attacks on democracy and the free press.

The GOP nominee for Arizona governor, who's a former TV anchor herself, slurred reporters at a campaign event as "bastards" and accused her rival, secretary of state Katie Hobbs, of scheming to steal the election, and the "Morning Joe" host unloaded on her.

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Counterterrorism expert shares an alarming example of how Fox News amplifies GOP extremism

A veteran counterterrorism officer warned the Republican Party has been radicalized in a way that destabilizes democracy, and he gave a chilling example of how Fox News amplifies extremism into the mainstream.

Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior intelligence service officer at the CIA, followed up on his recent column outlining a strategy for GOP deradicalization on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where he revealed how the conservative network twisted his words and launched a torrent of violent threats.

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'Willing to do or say anything': Morning Joe singles out Kari Lake as 'a grave threat to democracy'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough singled out one of Donald Trump's hand-picked candidates as a threat to U.S. democracy.

Congressional majorities are on the line in Tuesday's midterm elections, along with President Joe Biden's agenda and potentially even the future of American democracy, and the "Morning Joe" host explained how the former president is continuing to threaten the constitutional order by backing election fraud conspiracy theorists.

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Morning Joe rips 'Mr. Insurrection' Josh Hawley for bashing military and law enforcement

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) as "Mr. Insurrection" for attacking the military and Department of Justice.

The Missouri Republican, who tried to block certification of President Joe Biden's election win, appeared Friday at a campaign event in Arizona, where he complained that the U.S. military had been weakened by LGBTQ service members and accused the FBI of prosecuting parents as domestic terrorists.

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Morning Joe astonished by Trump's boasts about being able to 'genetically' understand viruses

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was astonished by Donald Trump's boasts about understanding the coronavirus "genetically" because his uncle had been a scientist.

Journalist Bob Woodward appeared Friday on "Morning Joe," where he shared some of his voluminous recordings of Trump interviews, including one where the former president claimed to have special knowledge about the Covid-19 pandemic due to his relationship with John Trump, an electrical engineer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Morning Joe unloads on GOP response to Paul Pelosi assault: 'I'm so sick and tired of this BS!'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough unloaded on the Republican Party's tacit endorsement of political violence in a profane early morning rant.

The "Morning Joe" host rejected the idea that American politics were broken, after GOP elected officials and candidates mocked and downplayed the brutal hammer attack by a right-wing conspiracy theorist against House speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband in their home.

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Bombshell emails raise new questions about Ginni Thomas contacts with John Eastman: WaPo reporter

Another batch of emails obtained from John Eastman shows Donald Trump's lawyers were counting on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to help them disrupt Joe Biden's election win, and their certainty raises new questions about his wife's role in the scheme.

Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro wrote Dec. 31, 2020, that Thomas would be "our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by Jan. 6" on a challenge to election results in Georgia, whose circuit court he oversees, and Washington Post reporter Jacqueline Alemany wondered on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" why he and Eastman felt so confident about the justice's willingness to assist.

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'It's maddening': Morning Joe rips Arizona Democrat Katie Hobbs for 'hiding' from 'dangerous' Kari Lake

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough expressed frustration at the campaign run by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs against Republican election denier Kari Lake in Arizona.

New polling shows Lake leading the Arizona secretary of state by two points, which is in the margin of error, but the "Morning Joe" host ripped the state's Democratic Party for boosting fringe candidates in the GOP primaries in hopes of knocking them off in November, but doing little to press that advantage.

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Trump-backed GOP candidates will be expected to take down Mitch McConnell: MSNBC’s Claire McCaskill

Former President Donald Trump expects the Republican candidates he backed in U.S. Senate races to stick the knife in Mitch McConnell's hopes to become majority leader again, according to MSNBC's Claire McCaskill.

The former Democratic senator told "Morning Joe" that the ex-president was backing low-quality candidates who owe their political fortunes to him with the expectation that they'll exact revenge against his political enemy McConnell and give him total control over the Republican Party.

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Morning Joe reveals disturbing reason 'totalitarian' Trump picks such low-quality GOP candidates

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" debated whether J.D. Vance or Herschel Walker was a worse candidate for U.S. Senate, and host Joe Scarborough said their dismal qualifications had a disturbing historical precedent.

Scarborough mocked Vance as a phony populist who was unable to connect with voters in the state where he grew up and he said Walker was clearly incapacitated and unfit to serve, but he said there was a reason Donald Trump hand-picked them and celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in their Republican primary races.

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'What's wrong with your soul?' Morning Joe condemns GOP 'lying' about Paul Pelosi's assault

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped Republicans who are mocking Paul Pelosi's assault and wondered whether even Donald Trump could scale back the violent movement he had unleashed.

A 42-year-old conspiracy theorist broke into the Pelosis' San Francisco home looking to menacingly confront House speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was in Washington, D.C., at the time, and attacked her elderly husband with a hammer, and the "Morning Joe" host condemned the lies GOP candidates and officials were spreading to minimize the assault.

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MSNBC legal expert blames Marjorie Taylor Greene for hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband: 'A kook with a lot of power'

A panelist on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" drew a straight line between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's conspiracy theories and the attack on House speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband.

Paul Pelosi was severely beaten by a hammer-wielding assailant in a politically motivated attack, and Florida prosecutor Dave Aronberg blamed Republican elected officials for encouraging violence.

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