Panelists on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday were stunned at the continuing collapse of President Donald Trump’s re-election prospects as new polls show Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leading by 13 points nationwide.
The show co-host Joe Scarborough said that numbers are looking insurmountable for the president to overcome as he showed a graphic illustrating the Quinnipiac poll that shows Biden beating Trump 51 percent to 38 percent.
“I’m hesitant to suggest this is where the real numbers are right now,” the host said before adding, “Obviously we’re at the end of July. When I saw the Quinnipiac plus 13 out of Florida, I thought that’s probably an outlier, maybe we’re close to eight, nine, based on the polls.”
“Michigan plus nine, Minnesota, a state that Trump’s campaign believed for three years they were going to bring along into their column, along with New Mexico, those are long gone,” he continued. “They’re not going to be able to campaign in Minnesota or New Mexico because they now have to worry about Texas. We’ve probably done five, six polls over the past month basically show Texas deadlocked within the margin of error except the Dallas News poll this week that showed Biden up by five — bad across the board right now.”
“Yes, it’s early, blah, blah, blah, it’s early,” Scarborough suggested. “It’s important to remember, as Donald Trump’s people are starting to tell him, early voting starts soon. We’re about six weeks away from people starting to vote early and some of these attitudes about the president seem increasingly locked in.”
Washington Post editor Eugene Robinson agreed that the polling is devastating to the president.
“I think he’s totally upside down on the coronavirus issue,” Robinson stated. “And, look, if these numbers in Florida are anything like what the result ends up to be, this is beyond a blowout. This is — you can’t possibly lose Florida by those kinds of margins and expect anything, you know, expect to come close in the general election.”
“And for that poll to come out and then all those Fox News polls, the president’s favorite poll that show him well behind in those midwestern battleground states and Pennsylvania — these are devastating blows to a president.”
“We’re getting to the point where traditionally, you know, pundits say people are starting to pay attention,” he continued. “First of all, people have been paying attention to this election all along. There’s nobody in this country that doesn’t have an opinion about Donald Trump and who doesn’t have an opinion about this election.”
Watch the discussion below:
