A whiff of panic in the Morning Joe air today.
It began with Joe Scarborough admitting that the race is tied. And you know what they say in football: if he's even, he's leavin'. Because if Trump is even in the popular vote, he is likely leading in the Electoral College. Just ask Hillary Clinton.
Jonathan Lemire then admitted that Trump's strategy [which Lemire predictably claimed was "lying'] "might just be working. His base is coming home."
Lemire continued: "It's still a tied race. No one's saying that it's over by any means. But the Harris momentum of a month or two back does seem to have dissipated."
Here was the tell. When the word that immediately followed Lemire's claim that the race isn't over was "but," you know just how nervous the liberal media is.
Jon Meacham pleaded with persuadable Republicans. Acknowledging how hard it is for them to vote for a Democrat, Meacham's prescription was: "Just vote for Harris. And what I argue is, don't tell anybody if you don't want to!"
When the Democrat strategy is reduced to telling people not to admit they're voting for Kamala, there might be more than a "whiff" of panic in the air. We could be getting into stench territory.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
10/14/24
6:15 am EDTJOE SCARBOROUGH: We are tied right now. And we are tied because his base has come back home.
JONATHAN LEMIRE: He is lying. He is lying about migrants. He's lying about crime. He's lying about the crimes committed by immigrants. That is his closing argument. His rhetoric is only getting darker and more dangerous. And it might just be working. His base is coming home. We have seen a little bit of movement towards him in some of these polls.
It's still a tied race. No one is saying it's over by any means. But the Harris momentum of a month or two back does seem to have dissipated.
. . .
JON MEACHAM: And one of the things that's so interesting is -- and I think you and I -- you're more conservative than I am, but we come from the same zip code, roughly.
You know, I haven't moved, particularly, right? I'm George H.W. Bush's biographer, you know. And now, you know, you can say -- some people say, well, you're an anti-Trump Trotskyite, you know. But I haven't moved.
SCARBOROUGH: No.
MEACHAML: They have. And so, and I don't want to point, I don't want to point a finger, I don't want people walking into the street and gnashing their teeth and having to wear sackcloth and ashes. Leave all that aside, right? We're in the conversion business.
Just vote for Harris. And what I'd argue is, don't tell anybody! -- if you don't want to, right? I mean, if you go in there and you're a Republican, and I know it's hard. It's, you know, it's, this is part of people's identity. And when they really look at those names, they think, uh, you know, Democrat. Uh, taxes, uh. How bout thinking, uh, Constitution, when you look at Trump?
