{"id":51762,"date":"2016-10-10T14:27:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51762"},"modified":"2016-10-10T14:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:28:39","slug":"scarborough-brzezinski-praise-trumps-epic-debate-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51762","title":{"rendered":"Scarborough, Brzezinski Praise Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Epic&#8217; Debate Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_mj_toptalk_161010' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' border='no' ><\/iframe><br \/>\nMSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221;<br \/>\nBy Sandy Fitzgerald<\/p>\n<p>NEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have both been critical over GOP nominee Donald Trump in recent months, but on Monday, they both praised him for what Brzezinski called an &#8220;epic&#8221; performance on Sunday night&#8217;s presidential debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the political reality, for the Republican base, Donald Trump delivered the attack against the Clinton machine that the Republican base in middle America [has] been waiting for, for years now,&#8221; Scarborough commented the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/joe-trump-s-most-effective-debate-performance-782652483844\"><strong>&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> show he co-hosts with Brzezinski, going on to call Trump&#8217;s explosive performance his &#8220;most effective&#8221; yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My God, it was epic,&#8221; Brzezinski, a liberal, who has admitted on the air that she could not be objective when it comes to Trump. &#8220;No Republican in America could have done what he did last night. It was vintage Trump. He produced a day-long show that rocked the political world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton was &#8220;on the defensive most of the night&#8221; and seemed &#8220;unsure of herself,&#8221; while Trump, &#8220;who has made the Republican Party members&#8217; lives living and breathing hells for the past year and a half, last night turned it up to 11,&#8221; said Scarborough. &#8220;And all of those people that jumped ship about halfway through the debate were looking at their TV saying, &#8216;oh, shoot.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And when it comes to a leaked videotape of Trump using explicit language against women, Scarborough said &#8220;no Republican in America should have been surprised by what they heard on Friday&#8221; and he thinks many of those who backed away from Trump will be back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think people who were never for him aren&#8217;t shocked because this was the character of the man that they could never get behind,&#8221; said Scarborough. &#8220;For these Republicans that scurried away, and now may be forced to come back, if Donald Trump were up by 10 points, would they have ran away on Friday? I think that&#8217;s the point we&#8217;re making. They&#8217;re such hypocrites. They scurry away when he&#8217;s behind. You watch, if he gets five points ahead, they&#8217;ll come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg Politics managing editor Mark Halperin said on the show that Trump had &#8220;nothing to lose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I learned in my 20s not to get in a bar fight with a guy who has nothing to lose,&#8221; said Halperin, and Trump &#8220;stripped away any pretense of being a politician, any pretense of civility and said &#8216;I&#8217;m throwing everything at her.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, he continued, got to stand on a stage and say the things Republicans have been saying and emailing &#8220;for a generation,&#8221; and while Halperin doesn&#8217;t think the debate will bring Trump new voters, it will still energize his base and his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolle Wallace, former communications director for President George W. Bush, said Trump&#8217;s debate performance reflected the efforts of campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and advisers Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie to get him to prepare for the debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What you saw was someone who had done real prep, with someone playing Hillary Clinton, with someone playing a moderator, and preparing to answer questions for 90 minutes,&#8221; said Wallace. &#8220;He went in there way behind, and I think he&#8217;s still behind in this race. And the kinds of people that he needed to win over were the ones that were repulsed by his talk of grabbing the p-word. I don&#8217;t think people repulsed by his talk of grabbing the p-word were turning back in his favor last night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-praise-trump\/2016\/10\/10\/id\/752597\/#ixzz4Mhy2wzId\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-praise-trump\/2016\/10\/10\/id\/752597\/#ixzz4Mhy2wzId<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}