The pundits of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” did not take former President Donald Trump’s historic election win well, lashing out at hispanic and black male voters who voted against Kamala Harris on Tuesday.
Host Joe Scarborough pointed out that Harris performed poorly with white men as expected, but also with voters who historically vote Democrat but voted instead for the former president.
“Kamala Harris is a woman of color in an interracial marriage running as a woman to be the head of state,” contributor Al Sharpton began. “That is something a lot of Americans are not ready to deal with. How we move that forward, we need to face it and deal with it and I hope we do it in a way that shows that we will be more mature than when they lost [in 2020]. There will be no January 6 insurrection from our side. It must be the maturing of America.”
New Morning Joe talking point: Hispanics are racist against black people and black men are misogynistic
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Scarborough cut in, “I will just say, Rev, really quickly, too, Democrats need to be mature and they need to be honest. And they need to say, yes, there is misogyny, but it’s not just misogyny from white men. It’s misogyny from Hispanic men, it’s misogyny from black men, things we have all been talking about, who do not want a woman leading them.”
“Might be race issues with Hispanics, they don’t want a Black woman as president of the United States,” he continued. “You know, the Democratic party, I’ve always found when you’re sitting around talking, they love to just sort of balkanize everybody into separate groups, and say, ‘Oh, white people don’t like women and Black people.’ No. We’ve talked about this before: a lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates.”
“And with other Hispanics!” Sharpton exclaimed. “You’ve got some that don’t like each other. And some of the most misogynist things I heard on the get out the vote tour came from Black men. So you’re absolutely right, it’s not simplistic and we have to have real honest conversations about it.”
Without a hint of irony, Scarborough then launched into a lecture to Democrats about how they’ve become out of touch with the American electorate.
“At some point, Democrats are going to have to confront some realities that they haven’t wanted to confront in the past, they didn’t want to confront past issues on the border, it took them too long to confront that,” Scarborough said.
"It's time for the Democrats to take a good, long hard look at how this happened, and if they just say 'Trump bad, Democrats virtuous' they're gonna keep losing. This is not about just Trump; this is about the Democrats and being radically disconnected from rest of the country."… pic.twitter.com/NPxFmp2wV7
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“We talked about the transgender inmate ad that ran 30,000 times that the Democrats refused to respond to despite the fact it was Donald Trump’s own policy. Because I guess some people in the campaign, we talked about this before, thought it might – maybe they were too woke to respond to a false ad and they were afraid they’d be attacked by their own base. There are so many questions for the Democrats to answer, but one of them, the one that I just saw, that will be staring them in the face if they don’t do something about it, is that 45% of Hispanics voted for Donald Trump.”
Scarborough then urged Democrats to self-reflect and figure out how their party became so “radically disconnected” from the rest of the country.
“If you look at this, if you look at younger voters, you look at all these different – we’ve been talking about a new Republican Party, there needs to be a new Republican Party, this morning this is about as bleak as any time for Democrats since the so-called 1984 San Francisco Democrats,” Scarborough said.
“It’s time for the Democrats to take a good, long, hard look at how this happened and if they just say ‘Trump bad, Democrats virtuous,’ they’re gonna keep losing, cause this, again this is so widespread. This is not about just Donald Trump, this is about the Democratic Party being radically disconnected from the rest of the country. Look at the map.”
The election was called for Trump early Wednesday morning after he reached 277 Electoral College votes, but is expected to reach 312 if the current trends hold with Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Alaska.