Since Harris underperformed President Joe Biden’s 2020 run in every county reported so far, Scarborough hearkened the loss to that of former Vice President Walter Mondale against Ronald Reagan in 1984.

“At some point, Democrats are going to have to confront some realities that they have not wanted to confront in the past,” Scarborough said on Morning Joe. “This morning, this is about as bleak as any time for Democrats since the so-called 1984 San Francisco Democrats. It’s time for the Democrats to take a hard and long look at how this happened, and if they just say Trump bad, Democrats virtuous, they’re gonna keep losing cause again; this is so widespread. This is not about just Donald Trump. This is about the Democratic Party and being radically disconnected from the rest of the country. Look at the map.”

Scarborough suggested that the party should have addressed the border and Trump’s transgender policies. He pointed to one popular ad of Trump’s that featured clips of Harris promising gender-affirming care to prisoners and accused her of being “for they/them.”

“This is the biggest red wave I’ve seen since Ronald Reagan’s 49-state victory in 1984,” Scarborough said.

Reagan was much more successful in his 1984 race, as he won 525 Electoral College votes and his opponent at the time only won 13. While the counts are not finished, Harris has won at least 224 electoral votes, as of Wednesday morning.

One notable demographic shift of the 2024 race was the Latino vote. Early estimates report that Trump garnered 45% of the Latino vote, which makes up over 14% of the electorate. Scarborough compared that statistic to when former President George W. Bush swept 44% of the Latino vote in 2004 when they only made up 8% of eligible voters at the time, but still the statistic “sent shock waves,” according to Scarborough.