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When Democrats enjoyed a sweeping blue wave in the Tuesday, November 4 elections, political strategists were shocked not only by the many Democratic victories, but also, by the margins of those victories. The New Jersey gubernatorial race was expected to be close, based on polls. But the Democratic nominee, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, won by double digits — as did Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, a key swing state.

During a November 5 appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the next day, journalist David Drucker argued, "It's not the Democratic victories; it's the breadth of the victories." And he got no argument from conservative host Joe Scarborough, who stressed that there was very little good news for Republicans on Election Night 2025.

One of Scarborough's big takeaways on the election results is that President Donald Trump, by living in a "bubble" and only talking to obsequious loyalists, condemned the GOP to a long list of Election Night failures.

The Never Trump conservative and former GOP congressman told co-host Mika Brzezinski and Politico's Jonathan Martin, "The right track/wrong track numbers are horrific. One-third of Americans think we're going in the right direction; two-thirds of Americans think we are going in the wrong direction. Donald Trump's approval numbers on the economy: worse than Joe Biden's. Now, Donald can say it's the best economy we've ever had. But in this CNN poll, only 37 percent — here's his approval rating. But you look at some polls on his approval rating on the economy, and poll after poll after poll, they are his worst approval rating numbers ever."

Scarborough continued, "But he's in a bubble. He does not want to hear from anybody that's going to tell him the truth…. And so, the question is: What do Republicans do with a president like that?.... His White House staff in the first term was more willing to speak truth to him."

Martin interjected that Republicans "will never confront him in public" about either the economy of his poll numbers.

"But even privately," Martin told Scarborough and Brzezinski, I don't know that they have the spine to say what needs to be said."