On Wednesday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough sought to present himself as the kindly, non-partisan political consultant, saying he had warned Republicans not to overreach after their 2024 victories, or imagine they'd occupy the White House forever.
How phony. That was just cover for his gloating proclamation that Republicans didn't listen to him:
"And if you go too fast, voters will knock you on your ass immediately. And that's what happened yesterday."
Democrat ex-senator Claire McCaskill didn't even bother trying to disguise her glee, saying of President Trump: "Yeah, I'd say he's on his ass."
Morning Joe proceeded to give the shortest, most misleading, of shrifts to the victory of Democrat Jay Jones in the Virginia attorney general race.
The show devoted all of seven seconds to it. Here's the totality of what the show, via Mika Brzezinski, had to say:
"Democrat Jay Jones won the race for Virginia Attorney General, overcoming a text message scandal that threatened his chances."
An unsuspecting viewer might have imagined that Jones had sent some racy texts. The reality, of course, is that he sent texts saying a Republican lawmaker deserved “two bullets to the head,” followed by a wish that the Republican lawmaker’s children “die in their mother’s arms.”
What, Joe? No condemnation of Jones, or friendly-consultant warnings to Democrats not to support abhorrent candidates like him as Attorney General?
Democrats often like to claim that whereas they are quick to disown their party members caught in scandals, Republicans tend to cover for fellow Republicans in hot water.
But per Grok:
According to NBC News exit polls from the 2025 Virginia election, 91% of voters who strongly disapproved of President Trump's job performance (a group that typically overlaps heavily with Democratic voters) supported Jay Jones in the attorney general race.
So, 91% of heavily Dem-leaning voters were still willing to overlook those horrifying texts, and vote for him.
And the most striking moment from any election across the country was Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger's Profile in Cowardice, as she flatly stonewalled Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, refusing during their debate to utter a word in response to Earle-Sears demanding that she disavow Jones. Clearly, that worked.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
11/5/25
6:01 am ETJOE SCARBOROUGH: I mean, we got Claire McCaskill here. Claire, we've been through this before, where a party wins big in 2008. You saw this. Party loses big in 2009. We saw it with Donald Trump.
Because I'm a nice guy, I've been trying to say: trim your sails. You're being too extreme. Don't do that with people on the streets. Don't. They couldn't help themselves.
And man, they learned what we try to tell people in White Houses over and over and over again, you don't buy the place, you rent it.
And if you go too fast, voters will knock you on your ass immediately. And that's what happened yesterday.
CLAIRE MCCASKILL: Yeah, I'd say he's on his ass.
. . .
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Democrat Jay Jones won the race for Virginia Attorney General, overcoming a text message scandal that threatened his chances.
