Scarborough on Flake Exit: What We Are Seeing Is ‘Political Suicide,’ the ‘Coming End’ of the GOP

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough said Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) announcement that he would not be seeking re-election coupled with other Republicans criticisms of President Donald Trump was the “coming end of the Republican Party.”

Willie Geist said, “You go from John McCain, George W. Bush, Jeff Flake, Bob Corker yesterday, these are Republicans who felt the need and come occupant and re-affirm, not just conservative values, American values, what is happening right now not who we are. I don’t know, have we seen anything like there? Nine months, ten months into a presidency where members of his own party are coming out, lining up to criticize him this way.”

Scarborough said, “You haven’t. Let’s make no mistake of it. What we are seeing here is the political suicide. It’s the coming end of the Republican Party where you are losing guys who are temperamentally moderate, who have 96 percent conservative ratings and can win states like Arizona, which is shifting and they are going to be replaced by conspiracy theorists who are going to get blown away at the polls.”

(h/t Grabien)

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