Republicans lost the seat most recently held by disgraced former congressman George Santos, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough laid the blame at Donald Trump's feet.
Democrat Tom Suozzi won back his old seat in a special election in New York’s 3rd District to replace the federally indicted Santos, who was expelled in December for a variety of ethics violations, and the "Morning Joe" host added that race to the GOP's years-long losing streak under Trump's leadership.
"Here is the thing that we have been talking about every day over the last week or two," Scarborough said. "That has real-world implications, and that is that there was a resolution to the southern border that would have stopped illegal immigrants from streaming in across the southern border, that would have stopped fentanyl that's killing American kids from streaming across the American border, crime along the American border, and now in New York City. We're hearing all of this could have been stopped by a deal that Republican [Sen.] James Lankford put forward, but Donald Trump told the Republicans not to do it, and so there's going to be chaos at the border for the next year because of Donald Trump, and it had an impact in this race."
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"Tom Suozzi was on the defensive on the issue of immigration until that happened, and when that happened, when Donald Trump killed the bill, the reporters up there say, the entire issue turned on its head," Scarborough continued. "Suozzi leaned into it and won on the issue of immigration. Stop for a second, listen to what I just said: A Democrat won on the issue of immigration, and so, I was so surprised when I was there, so surprised now that there are politicians that think they can do whatever they can do in Congress and it won't catch up to them, always shocked there because it always caught up with them. I'm still shocked that these MAGA extreme Republicans and the speaker of the House are stupid enough to believe that you can openly say we're going to let fentanyl come across our border for the next year. We're going to let illegal immigrants come across our border for the next year because Donald Trump says 'blame me, we're going to do it,' and it has real-world implications."
"Republicans lose again – 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, last night, and they aren't just losing because the stars are aligned against them," he added. "They're losing because one self-inflicted Trump wound after another. This is just the latest chapter and verse of that."
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