Reacting to Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he plans to seek the Republican presidential nomination, Todd said Trump’s candidacy has the “potential to embarrass the future nominee.”

“I feel bad for the rest of the Republican field,” Todd said Wednesday on MSNBC. “Behind the scenes you have a party apparatus, you have candidates who hope that he doesn’t run, who basically are treating him like the skunk at the garden party. And you know, if he’s standing there on stage next to the next Republican nominee and they have to answer for things that he said … I think it’s a potential to embarrass the future nominee, having him on stage.”