MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough said Tuesday that if any other candidate had the lead that Donald Trump has, “the mainstream media would have called this race over.”
Scarborough told the panel that the race is coming down to “who can get the wild card berth for the playoffs. The fact is, Donald Trump is so far ahead in every one of these polls. Massively ahead.”
Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin interjected that Trump is the “number one seed.”
“Let’s just state the obvious,” Scarborough said. Trump is “the number one seed. Number one, undefeated. Let’s just state the obvious. If it were any other candidate but Donald Trump right now, the mainstream media would have called this race over.” Halperin agreed.
Scarborough continued to say the establishment media would have said, “‘It’s a TKO. The fight is over.’ Trump is destroying everybody outside of Iowa.”
NBC’s Willie Geist added, “And has been for six, seven, eight months now.”
Geist said, “But you’re right on that race for the wild card berth. If you look the New Hampshire poll in particular, it could be any one of a cluster of those people. You’ve got Jeb Bush and Chris Christie and [crscore]Marco Rubio[/crscore]. There’s a whole group there that hopes to hang around enough to steal that lane.”
“Trump is trying to win Iowa,” Halpin claimed. “He’s there today with a big endorsement announcement. He’s going back many times before the caucuses. He is not conceding Iowa.”