"I've been talking about this a good bit and, and I just, I, I—it's important that we keep talking about it."
Poor Joe Scarborough. Losing hurts.
On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough mounted his hobby horse, and for the umpteenth time since November 5th wailed about how it was only a "1% election."
Forget that Trump won EVERY swing state. That he won the popular vote [which should make Dems rethink their call for the abolishment of the Electoral College.] That according to the New York Times [!], ALL 50 states swung right.
But in an effort to console himself and his fellow travelers, Scarborough clings desperately to his 1% mantra. He went on to try to make the case that things were actually great under Biden-Harris. That America is "going in the right direction"—despite the fact that in the months leading up to the election, three-quarters of Americans disagreed.
So yeah, you dumb voters. Who you gonna believe, Joe Scarborough, or your lyin' eyes?
The question arises: at this point, what is Scarborough's game? We get that he had become Biden's buddy and leading liberal-media lapdog. But Biden is about to vanish, and Harris has lost. So why does Scarborough persist in making the case for them? It looks like Scarborough has become a Democrat dead-ender. That he has tied his fortunes to the Dems, and there he will make his stand.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
1/7/25
6:13 am ETJOE SCARBOROUGH: You know, I've been talking about this a good bit and, and I just, I, I, it's important that we keep talking about it. We keep talking about the perspective of keeping everything in proper perspective as far as what the election was. And I will say what the Biden-Harris presidency was. We're going to have Peter Baker on a little bit later on.
And, you know, Willie, we keep hearing about landslides, this, that, other. I mean, a win's a win's a win. It was a 1% win, though. It was a 1% win. So, so the election was extremely close, even though the trend lines were all the Republicans' ways in just about every demographic group.
It was still 1%. There was less than 1% in Wisconsin. It was about 1.5% in Pennsylvania. It was a little less than 1.5% in wisconsin. So, we, we are a politically, an equally divided country.
But also, we gonna have Peter Baker on. And I read this, uh, this past weekend. It's pretty remarkable. And it's something that Biden and Harris, uh, you know, they're not feeling it now. But historians certainly will note this, uh, only because it's the facts.
And I know that the facts don't matter to a lot of people. Their feelings matter more, which of course is ironic because I remember seeing in 2020 all these flags that said, f your feelings, Trump 2020. And then of course, it was their feelings. They didn't care about the facts. It was their feelings that stopped them from saying, yes, of course, Joe Biden won. It just doesn't feel right. It doesn't feel like he could have won.
And it's the same thing with this election. Oh, things are terrible. Things are horrible in America. Biden's been a failure. Harris has been a failure. That's all we heard.
