MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough called out Fox News and Elon Musk-owned X for keeping the GOP “locked away from the reality” ahead of their disastrous midterm loss earlier this month.
“So my question today is, how could any Republican be surprised?” Scarborough said Friday morning, noting Republicans’ reactions to the midterm results. “And the only answer is, they were locked in this bubble, this echo chamber between X and whatever TV stations they wanted to watch that would regurgitate what they wanted back to them.”
The Republicans were called out after the midterms for focusing too much on culture wars like transgender athletes and fear-mongering, instead of sending voters a key message, such as affordability.
According to Scarborough, the Republican Party as a whole was “out of touch” leading up to the election, and he slammed them for being “wrong on every major issue.”
He pointed out the reason some Republicans were surprised by the election results was that “they built this information bubble that actually captured them, and it made them blind to the tsunami that was coming.”
“You watch Fox News right now, and while the other networks are talking about a historic win in Mississippi, at that same time, they’ll be talking about illegal immigrants or trans athletes or some other issue that kept Republicans locked away from the reality, these candidates, and made them lose the most historic landslide,” he later added.
The MS NOW host credited X and right-wing accounts that he said “created an information bubble ” and “completely made these Republican candidates blind to what was about to hit them.”
“Republicans have made the mistake time and again that what works for Donald Trump is going to work in their campaign,” Scarborough said, noting the president’s success on the social media platform during his 2016 campaign.
“And let me just say, it never, ever does. What works for Donald Trump works for Donald Trump. And that doesn’t even work for Donald Trump right now with an approval rating in the low 30s,” he continued.