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Ignore ‘Stupid March Polls!’—Scarborough Goes Baghdad Bob For Biden

Donny Deutsch Jen Palmieri Joe Scarborough MSNBC Morning Joe 3-22-24 “I reassure you the Biden campaign is safe. There is no presence of the Trump campaign in the streets of America. None at all.” 

That paraphrase of Saddam spokesman Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf, aka “Baghdad Bob,” at the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003, with American tanks rumbling into Baghdad, could have been Joe Scarborough on Friday’s Morning Joe.

Scarborough claimed that Trump’s financial travails “are the sort of things that may not show up in stupid polls in March.”

He rolled tape of Never Trumper Stuart Stevens analogizing the Trump to a bag filled with water. It might not be leaking, but there’d come a time when it would catastrophically collapse! 

Scarborough said Stevens analogized the race to 1980 race between Carter and Reagan. It was considered a toss-up till the very end, until Reagan broke away in the last weekend. Which is really weird,…

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