On Monday morning, the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" reacted to speeches Donald Trump gave over the weekend and the frightening direction his rhetoric has taken painting a "darker" future if he is not re-elected.
Pointing to immigrant bashing becoming a central theme of the Trump/J.D. Vance campaign, co-host Joe Scarborough suggested the former president sees the election slipping away, can't believe that he is losing to a Black woman and is reacting by ramping up the overt racism.
As he told his panel, "It is a lot of noise, racism, and hatred —not so sure it is going to translate into a victory. As you know, if you ask the [Kamala] Harris campaign how they're feeling about the election right now, they'll go, you know, there's sort of a quiet confidence. But they're like, you know, we're tied, we're going to have to work hard if we want to win."
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"You talk to the Trump campaign, there's this, like, arrogance, where they'll tell you, 'Oh, we've got it. We have so many pathways to 270 [electoral votes]. We're fine,'" he continued. "The fact is, they might want to get that message to their boss. Because we all know Donald Trump, Donald Trump doesn't talk that way when he thinks he's ahead."
"Donald Trump, the more he sees Harris catching up in the polls, going ahead in the polls, the more he sees data that shows the trend lines aren't breaking in his direction, the more hostile he gets, the more racist he gets, the more xenophobic he gets, it's there. That is his tell," he added.
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