SCARBOROUGH: “But James, you know, it’s — it’s this is just the ebb and flow of politics. Bill Clinton wins big and ‘92. Idiots like me get elected in ‘94. Barrack Obama wins massively in ‘08, the Tea Party wins in ‘10. Could you explain to people viewing that don’t follow politics as closely and notice well as you do, how historic last night really was.”
CARVILLE: “I’m going to try because I’m sitting here saying if you put everything in a computer, we should have lost 57 seats.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah.”
CARVILLE: “Easy. Four or five Senate seats. And the reason is really Donald Trump. I mean, he bought people out to vote against this. You know, just he had a suppressive effect, he outtrumped inflation, he outtrumped crime, he outtrumped the normal cycle of the first — off the election when the incumbent president. I mean, I think when political historians they’re going to find so much more than that we missed this morning. And the best news I heard this morning was John Ralston. If John Ralston tells me it’s Eastern I’m going to dye my eggs. If he says —“ [crosstalk]
BRZEZINSKI: “Wait, what? If he does —“
SCARBOROUGH: “Hold on one second. Hey, hey because I’m from the Gulf Coast, I go to interpret — I got to interpret. James said, John Ralston tells me it’s Easter, I’m going to dye my eggs. Go ahead.”
[I’m not sure the reason is Donald Trump, but Carville’s right on the environment. Gallup’s presentation last week showed a perfect storm coming against Democrats, but Republicans just didn’t execute. I suspect abortion is one of the big reasons, but there are others, including but not exclusively Trump — Ed]
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