{"id":570314,"date":"2021-06-22T12:06:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570314"},"modified":"2021-06-22T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:06:38","slug":"joe-scarborough-compares-republicans-to-addicts-as-they-shift-support-from-trump-heroin-to-desantis-methadone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-scarborough-compares-republicans-to-addicts-as-they-shift-support-from-trump-heroin-to-desantis-methadone\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Scarborough Compares Republicans To Addicts As They Shift Support From Trump (Heroin) To DeSantis (Methadone)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-scarborough-compares-republicans-to-addicts-as-they-shift-support-from-trump-heroin-to-desantis-methadone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570314&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-22-at-10.43.31-AM-e1624377155444.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"50.071677451468\">\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough appeared to compare Republicans to drug addicts as they shift support from former President Donald Trump to Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough said on Tuesday\u2019s broadcast of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/10\/msnbc-morning-joe-ig-report-trump-photo-op\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cMorning Joe\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;that Republicans shifting focus from Trump to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/18\/nikki-fried-greatest-weakness-ron-desantis-cnn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeSantis<\/a> were moving \u201cfrom the political heroin to the political methadone.\u201d <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/20\/ron-desantis-leads-2024-straw-poll-donald-trump-2024\/\">(RELATED: DeSantis Appears To Be A Popular Lead For 2024, Straw Poll Shows)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski spoke with former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and the BBC\u2019s Katty Kay about a recent straw poll in which DeSantis edged out the former president to nab the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough noted that, in recent weeks, he had been hearing that top donors were quietly moving money away from Trump and toward DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a reason for that, because, as one person put it to me, it\u2019s DeSantis is Trump without the gold toilet. Meaning you don\u2019t have the bling and the flash,\u201d Steele replied, noting that DeSantis had been able to push back on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fairly effectively during the coronavirus pandemic. \u201cAnd that\u2019s worked to his advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kay pointed out the fact that DeSantis also did not have one major liability that Trump did: He has not lost his position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s where I question the Republicans in Congress and the Senate who still cannot \u2014 they cannot defy Trump and, you know, okay it\u2019s a cult. Okay, that\u2019s great. But when he\u2019s losing, if you\u2019re saying it\u2019s political logic, they don\u2019t want to lose their races. But he\u2019s lost everything for them. So why not walk away from this crazy man?\u201d Brzezinski asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going from the political heroin to the political methadone,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/11\/gillian-turner-flames-scarborough-for-mocking-ig-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scarborough<\/a> continued, saying that Republicans all seemed to have the same answer with regard to the shift to DeSantis. \u201cThey say he\u2019s Trump, with all the things we love about Trump, and none of the liabilities so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough appeared to compare Republicans to drug addicts as they shift support from former President Donald Trump to Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. 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