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'Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough scolded the press on Monday morning for accepting at face value claims from Donald Trump's campaign and allies that he will do extraordinarily well with non-white voters when he has repeatedly flopped in the past..

Speaking with the Rev. Al Sharpton, Scarborough recalled the many times it was predicted that the former president had a huge following among Black voters only to come up woefully short after the ballots were counted and election post-mortems were conducted.s

With that in mind, the MSNBC host admonished news editors to get their acts together for 2024 and quit buying the hype.

"I just want to circle back really quickly," he began. "Again, we're talking about the media and its coverage. We have been hearing now since 2020 breathless coverage because this is what Trump campaign people are constantly are telling the media: 'We're going to do really well with Black voters. Black voters are breaking to us, it'll be historic. 'I had one of their top people say, we're going to get 20 percent of the black vote, you wait and see, you just wait we're doing better.' And it's all we hear."

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"Rev, you hear it all the time, 'Why is Donald Trump doing so much better with Black voters historically? Perhaps it is because Black men like him because he plays a macho,'" he continued. "You know? Can we just actually deal with the facts here for a second? In 2020, Donald Trump, according to AP, got 8 percent of the Black vote. It's about what he got in 2016. — 8 percent. Editors, think about it. [Senator] John McCain (R-AZ) in 2008 got 12 percent of the Black vote — not a landslide. You know, maybe Donald Trump will get 8, 9, 10, 11 percent of the Black vote in 2024 if he's the Republican nominee."

"Could you bust open this lie about Donald Trump doing well against Black voters because it's a lie," he said turning to Sharpton. "The data shows it's a lie. The data shows that people in the media keep repeating this lie, that Trump somehow has some magic with Black voters and is doing better than other Republicans when he's just not."

"He is not doing what they are saying," Sharpton replied. "He clearly, as you stated, did less than John McCain and other Republican candidates."

"Let's be real clear," he continued. "We're talking about a man that was just found liable for lying about how many square feet he had in his bedroom. Why are we being surprised he'd lie about how many Blacks are voting for him? He did not get the overwhelming majority or even a significant amount of Black male voters, and he won't get them this time."

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Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" busted Donald Trump for suggesting Black voters liked him more because he had been indicted.

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Kicking off Monday morning after Donald Trump won the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough disabused the former president of any notion that it was the overwhelming victory that he seems to think it was.

Noting that the GOP frontrunner lost 40 percent of the vote to his opponent, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, the MSNBC host claimed that it was not a good showing for a former president.

Added to that, while reading from a Wall Street Journal editorial about Trump's underwhelming win, he pointed to an alarming trend so far for Trump.

As he put it, Trump "always underperforms."

"A couple weeks ago, [in] New Hampshire, 'Donald Trump routs,' you know, we're hearing Trump will win by 30 to 35 points in South Carolina. How long did we hear that? Heard he was going to win by 30 points for forever again. He always underperforms as far as margin of victory in the polls, always does. Yet, this was supposed to be a 30-point win. It ended up being a 20-point win," he began.

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"That's not the issue here for Donald Trump. If you're inside his campaign, what you're concerned about are what I would be concerned about," he continued. "I don't want to speak for them but what I'd be concerned about is, she won 40 percent of the vote. Here we go. Fox News voter analysis found that 59 percent of her voters, 59 percent, said they would not vote for Donald Trump if he's the GOP nominee. 36 percent of all South Carolina Republican voters said a conviction in just one of his criminal trials would make him unfit to be president."

"That is something the Trump campaign is going to have to focus on between here and the end of the year," he added.

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