Scarborough: ‘No Way’ a Candidate Can Win a General Election if Two-Thirds of His Own People Say He Needs To Withdraw

BRZEZINSKI: “What we’re seeing is potentially an evolution of thought on the part of President Biden on whether to stand.”
SCARBOROUGH: “We’ve had so many momentous days over the past several weeks, I can’t believe there won’t be history books that just detail what’s happened maybe over the last three weeks, the last 21 days. It’s — it’s really — it’s dizzying, and it feels like when — when you — you see documentaries of 1968 when — when you the chaos that went on just one event after another after another, but yesterday, Willie was just a day in and of itself, that may be determinative that may lead to that March 1968 moment when LBJ announced that he wasn’t going to seek the Democratic nomination. Again, I mean, you think about yesterday morning, we’re on the show and I brought up a series of polls that showed very little movement, post-debate, and very little movement, even post the tragedy that occurred on Saturday. And also just one Democratic pollster after another saying, it wasn’t the debate that caused damage to Joe Biden, it was probably all the Democratic infighting afterwards. And so there was a belief in Biden world that he could survive, then we get off the air and one thing after another happens. And, of course, we heard that Senator Schumer, the Democratic Majority Leader in the United States Senate, called on Joe Biden, in so many words to step down. Hakeem Jeffries, basically the same thing, real concern. Perhaps still one of the most powerful people among grassroots and Democratic donors, Nancy Pelosi —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.”
SCARBOROUGH: “— still out there. And — and — and —“
BRZEZINSKI: “That’s the one.”
SCARBOROUGH: “— what I keep hearing is Speaker Pelosi, Speaker Emeritus Pelosi, so brilliant, she’s not getting on phone calls saying Joe Biden must go, she’s conducting a listening tour. And she’s calling one Democratic House member after another, veteran vulnerable seats. And all she’s getting back bad news. And so she’s letting them know, just enough based on reporting, that she understands their concerns, and she’s very concerned, too, that they cannot lose the House. You have that. And so that sounds like elites. But then on top of that, of course, the ‘Associated Press’ poll that two thirds of Democrats want Joe Biden out of the race. That’s not the elites, that’s the heart and soul of the Democratic Party, and there’s no way a candidate can win a general election if two thirds of his own people say he needs to withdraw. And then — I think those are backwards. Yeah, that’s backwards.” [crosstalk]
GEIST: “Yeah.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Two — two thirds actually want him out. And so you add all this up and then finally, he gets the word from Jeffrey Katzenberg in Las Vegas, who before had been sort of the hero of fundraising, who had raised all of this money for Joe Biden, just telling the president the spigots run dry, donors are not — not giving money anymore, Mr. President, we can’t get donors to give money. You then hear about not infighting inside the Biden campaign, but just — just a sadness —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.”
SCARBOROUGH: “— and understanding that they cannot win with a man that they respect and love, and basically waiting for orders. Who are they going to help beat Donald Trump? And so all of that, all of that happened yesterday, along with so much more.”