Morning Joe hears Trump is 'raging behind the scenes' as he fears election chances dimming

Donald Trump may have cost himself and other Republicans a winnable state over the weekend by attacking the popular Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, according to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.

The former president unleashed a Truth Social tirade against Kemp on Saturday and then attacked him as a "bad guy" onstage at an Atlanta rally, at which he falsely claimed that his own supporters had been prevented from entering after Vice President Kamala Harris packed the same arena earlier in the week.

"This is one of these things where you ask, are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?" said the "Morning Joe" host. "The fact is, the Harris rally was packed. There was a lot of excitement, there was more excitement than we've seen at a Democratic rally in a very long time, certainly reminded a lot of reporters there of Barack Obama in 2008.

"Again, excitement that a lot of people have been saying has been bottled up for quite some time for Democrats. They're out there now. I've always told people running for office that campaigns are about the future, they're not about the past. I could add to that, they're not about crowd sizes. They're not about grudges and resentments, all the things that fuel Donald Trump's campaign."

"People say, well, he won,' Scarborough added. "Yeah, he won in '16. I'm not going to go through the litany of years Trump Republicans lost – 2017 all the way through 2023. It's because it's always resentment, it's always crowd sizes. It's always who he is going to, you know — who is treasonous. It is praising Vladimir Putin. It is these really weird things – weirdos, insurrectionists and freaks, far out there, pushing a lot of the crazy stuff. It's just, again, that's not where Middle America is."

The next president will likely need to win Georgia, which Trump lost in 2020 and then drove down turnout in a runoff election for the U.S. Senate months later as he sought to overturn his own loss with false claims of voter fraud.

"You know, at the Georgia rally, we're really burying the lead," Scarborough said.

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"Donald Trump has been a scourge, a scourge to Georgia Republicans. They've said as much. He was responsible for their loss in the 2020 Senate race, which, of course, kept Republicans from being the majority party in the United States Senate. He was responsible for the Senate candidates's loss in 2022, which also helped Democrats control the Senate again. He goes in in 2024, Georgia, a swing state again. What does he do? He is raging behind the scenes, according to my sources inside the campaign.

"So what does he do? He does the exact thing that his campaign staff, that members of the Georgia GOP would not want him to do. He picks a fight with an extraordinarily popular Republican governor."

"I will say, also, yes, a secretary of state in Georgia, trying to rig the election," Scarborough added. "Then went to the polls the next fall with Donald Trump trying to defeat him and what happened? He won in a landslide victory in the primary. Instead of doing what would have been good for Donald Trump and Republicans, and either making peace with Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger, or at least not saying anything, this is what Donald Trump did at a critical moment in this campaign."

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