Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” decided to go on an absolute rampage against The New York Times after they published new polling data that shows former President Donald Trump taking a sizable lead over President Joe Biden in several important swing states. Remember that rooster, Foghorn Leghorn, from Looney Tunes? The one that used to pick up the dog by the tail and smack the absolute h*ll out of his backside with a paddle?
That’s what Trump is doing to Biden and it’s making Scarborough big mad.
Check out the details from the Daily Caller:
“As I’ve said for the past couple of months, that – and I believe now that there is a conspiracy. I do believe in conspiracies,” Scarborough said. “I think psychiatrists in blue states have conspired with a New York Times/Siena pollster and said, listen, we’ll split the profits on psychiatric care if you guys will have the craziest methodology, which they always have. Maybe they’re trying to make up for ’20 when they skewed in Biden’s direction by about four or five points? But every one of these New York Times/Siena polls have been wildly skewed when you compare them to other polls that come out at the same time. And for those who say that’s not the case, we’ll be glad here at ‘Morning Joe,’ as you all know, we have a betting line. We’ll be glad to take all comers who think that Donald Trump is going to win Nevada by 12 points.”
Trump is ahead of Biden by 1.1% nationwide, according to the RealClearPolitics average for a 2024 head-to-head matchup. Trump leads 6.2% in Nevada, 5.2% ahead in Arizona, 4.6% ahead in Georgia, 2% ahead in Pennsylvania, 0.8% ahead in Michigan and 0.6% ahead in Wisconsin, the averages show.
“The New York Times right now is actively shaping the election cycles where this poll comes out on a Sunday and on Monday, people go, ‘oh,’ and I heard it. And I’m sitting there going, oh don’t be so stupid. That’s why we’re doing this,” Scarborough huffed and puffed.
John Heilemann, an analyst for MSNBC, decided to join the conversation and ask Scarborough what his theory is, but the host exploded like a shaken can of soda pop.
“Hold on a second! No, no, no. Hold on,” Scarborough raged. “What I hear is after these Siena polls come out, every time, New York Times poll news, well everything that Joe Biden has done since the State of the Union address, all this money he has put out, all of the campaigning is for naught. No, it’s not! No, it’s not! There’s one poll that’s wildly skewed every time and it does shape – if it’s a New York Times poll versus a Morning Consult poll and The New York Times then amplifies it 15, 16, 17, times, it warps reality and everybody responds to that in the media and in the political world.”
Can you imagine how delicious the meltdowns will be following the November election if Trump thumps Biden’s melon like a bongo? My intellectual mouth is watering just thinking about it. So satisfying.
Scarborough might have to go on blood pressure medication.
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said on Monday that Trump’s lead in the sun belt states of Nevada, Georgia and Arizona is an “absolute disaster” for Biden.
“These sun belt battleground states, frankly, for the Joe Biden campaign, these numbers are an absolute disaster,” Enten stated during the program. “The smallest lead is in Arizona for Donald Trump, he’s up six. Look at this, nine in Georgia, 13 in Nevada. My goodness, gracious, my god. That is a hugely — no Democrat has lost that state since John Kerry lost it back in 2004.”
If things are this spicy now, just imagine what they’ll be like the month before voting starts?