Scarborough’s comments come after President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election against Vice President Kamala Harris, which was partly driven by the uptick in support the former president received from black and Hispanic voters. In reflecting on the gains Trump made among these voting blocs, Scarborough contended that members of the Democratic Party pushed too hard on some matters, such as calls to defund the police amid voters wanting a safe environment for their children.

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“This is what we’ve known since 2017 and what you and I have talked about, that white elitists that run the Democratic Party are far to the left of many black and Hispanic voters in the Democratic Party,” Scarborough said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “And I remember a pollster for Barack Obama, I think David — I think his name was David Sax, forgive me — came out and had that poll in 2017. And he got absolutely hammered on Twitter, absolutely hammered by the far Left. ‘How dare you say this, how dare you!’ But he was right, and it was true in ’17, and it was doubly true in 2024 that these white progressives on the far, far Left said, “We’re going to save you, black and Hispanic people of America.’”

Scarborough contended that these voters likely rejected these pushes from the Democratic Party due to thinking “you’re kind of wild” and “too far Left.” He added that these voters want to partake in “the American Dream” and opted to tell Democratic candidates “thanks but no thanks.”

On Sunday, radio host Charlamagne tha God suggested Trump’s gains among minority voters stemmed from the former president speaking to “dinner table issues,” and how he sought to address these concerns from voters.

During the Monday episode, co-host Mika Brzezinski read an op-ed piece from the New York Times that assessed the Democratic Party’s “case of mistaken identity politics,” in which author Maureen Dowd argues Trump won the election due to how minority voters disliked the Democratic Party more than they disliked the former president. Dowd’s piece also stated that the Democratic Party has embraced “a worldview of hyper-political correctness, condescension, and cancellation.”

Brzezinski contended Dowd’s piece is “a really interesting message” for Democrats and that it showcases how some Democrats are “finally waking up and realizing that woke is broke.”

A couple of days after the election, sports journalist Stephen A. Smith suggested that part of the reason Harris lost the election was because her campaign catered to people “on the fringes,” pushing centrist voters away as a result. 

Following his victory in the presidential election, Trump has begun recruiting for his Cabinet. Most recently, he hired Stephen Miller as his White House deputy chief of staff for policy. Trump has also hired Susie Wiles, his 2024 co-campaign manager, as his next White House chief of staff and Tom Homan, the former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as the new “border czar.”