“I think there are a couple of things people in the press may not want to admit, but it was Donald Trump’s most effective debate performance to date,” offered Joe Scarborough, who noted that we’ve never seen Trump respond so strongly with his back against the wall…

Scarborough said that Hillary Clinton “had a unprecedented cheering section in the media,” and “she was on the defensive for most of the night.”

“I’m just give you the political reality,” he said, despite that fact that it may be inconvenient in light of his shocking leaked tape. “And 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 have been waiting for for years now.”