Joe Scarborough did not identify names. He desires, in spite of everything, to have the ability to stroll by the MSNBC cafeteria with out being hit behind the pinnacle with a kale-quinoa salad.
However the Morning Joe host did take repeated pictures this morning at MSNBC colleagues like Nicolle Wallace and Pleasure Reid who final evening blamed Terry McAuliffe’s loss on Glenn Youngkin specializing in Crucial Race Concept regardless that, they claimed, it is not “actual.”
Scarborough’s level was that even when CRT is not being explicitly taught in public faculties, wokeism is certainly current, has angered many dad and mom, and is hurting Democrats on the polls: “Democrats are going to have to come back face-to-face with this situation of wokeism….You’ve lots of people saying, oh, he gained primarily based on one thing that is not actual, that does not exist….Folks say, oh, it is simply because they’re all racists. No, no, they’re lifelong Democrats…” He then instructed MSNBC colleagues and viewers: “Folks can get mad in the event that they need to. Do not shoot me…”
Joe additionally stated that solely “losers” would blame McAuliffe’s defeat on racism. He identified that Virginia went for Obama and Kamala, and Virginia did not flip in a single day from being “enlightened” to being “racist.” Scarborough additional warned: “Democrats are going to need to discover a option to speak about it, moderately than simply saying it does not exist and it is not an issue. As a result of it is an issue that damage them final evening….it is actually hurting Democratic candidates, and it’ll proceed to.”
Katty Kay [who recently quit her job at the failed and disgraced Ozy Media] and John Heilemann grudgingly agreed, although Heilemann repeatedly cited “white grievance” as an element within the race.
And Kay argued that it will have been “historic” if McAuliffe had gained, given Virginia’s historical past of electing a governor from the opposite get together the yr after a presidential election. Good attempt, however there would have been nothing historic a few McAuliffe win, on condition that Biden had gained by 10% only a yr earlier than. Certainly, up till a few month in the past, the standard knowledge was that McAuliffe was on a glidepath to victory.
Scarborough did take an compulsory shot at Donald Trump. He claimed that Trump had a “very dangerous evening” as a result of Youngkin saved him in a “lock field” and wound up doing 13 factors higher than Trump had the yr earlier than. Scarborough instructed that Republicans round Virginia are seeing that, and realizing they’ll resurrect the outdated Republican coalition if they’ll preserve Trump “the hell away, in Mar-a-Lago behind the gates.”
Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe suggesting that Democrats deny at their peril their drawback with wokeism was sponsored partly by Liberty Mutual, SoFi, and Sandals.
Here is the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
11/3/21
6:18 am EDTJOE SCARBOROUGH: We have to speak about this across the desk an excellent bit, as a result of Democrats are going to have to come back face-to-face with this situation of wokeism.
MICHAEL STEELE: They do not know the best way to speak about it.
SCARBOROUGH: Not CRT, however wokeism. You’ve lots of people saying, oh, he gained primarily based on one thing that is not actual, that does not exist: CRT, or wokeism, or no matter you need to name it. I can let you know [laughs], I imply, that is all — I imply, I’ve stated this on the present earlier than.
Folks say, oh, it is simply because they’re all racists. No, no, they’re lifelong Democrats, they usually’re speaking about what is going on on on school campuses. They’re speaking about what is going on on in excessive faculties. They’re doing it!
Folks can get mad in the event that they need to. Do not shoot me, as Elton John stated. I am solely the piano participant.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Oh my God.
SCARBOROUGH: However his is what we’re listening to. On a regular basis, wherever we go, when no person’s watching, when the cameras are off, and when folks aren’t apprehensive about folks calling them bigots. It is simply taking place. And that performed out final evening in Virginia.
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KATTY KAY: If Mcauliffe had gained final evening, it will have been historic. As a result of it will have damaged the entire fashions thus far. So Democrats can take some solace from that.
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Democrats are going to need to discover a means, within the post-George Floyd world, and as there may be extra wokeness on American campuses and in faculties. Democrats are going to need to discover a option to speak about it, moderately than simply saying it does not exist and it is not an issue. As a result of it is an issue that damage them final evening. So that they need to discover a means.
SCARBOROUGH: It does not exist, and it is all about white grievance. And if that makes them really feel good, superior. You do you. I will do me. However it is actually hurting Democratic candidates, and it’ll proceed to.
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Are you able to consider the cut up between Youngkin and Trump? Youngkin plus 13 over trump.
JOHN HEILEMANN: Proper!
SCARBOROUGH: That is simply, I stated early on in passing, final evening was a really dangerous evening for Donald Trump. As a result of there is a man who saved him in a lock field. He has favorability plus 13 over Trump. And each Republican in that state goes, okay, we have to maintain Trump in Mar-a-Lago behind the gates. As a result of when he stays the hell away, we win huge, and we are able to get our outdated coalition again!
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So, so, yeah: white grievance.
HEILEMANN: There’s a few of it on the market! A variety of Trump voters had that.
SCARBOROUGH: There’s a whole lot of white grievance on the market. Completely get that. On the identical time —
HEILEMANN: It is not the one factor.
SCARBOROUGH: As a result of we’re dialectical round right here.
HEILEMANN: It is not the one factor.
SCARBOROUGH: On the identical time, Willie, it is a state that voted for Barack Obama overwhelmingly. This can be a state that voted for Kamala Harris overwhelmingly a yr in the past. [Laughs] this state didn’t flip into an enlightened blue state to a racist state in a single day.
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That is how losers discuss. That is how losers assume the morning after the election. You name voters racist, regardless that they voted for Barack Obama and Kamala Harris.
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