'J.D. Vance effect': Conservative says Trump risks win by sticking with 'weirdest figures'

As part of a discussion on Tuesday night's presidential debate on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," conservative Charlie Sykes claimed that Donald Trump's campaign is collapsing because he is listening to the wrong people.

As the conversation turned to Trump closely associating with conservative gadfly Laura Loomer, who Sykes said was "not just a bigot, she is a freak," the longtime Republican pundit said she is not the only one who has persuaded the former president to follow his worst instincts.

"I mean, think about this," he began. "We're less than two months from the election and Donald Trump is associating with some of the craziest, weirdest figures on the right."

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"And in part, you know, this is kind of the J.D. Vance effect," he elaborated. "J.D. Vance and Donald Trump Jr. who have decided they want Donald Trump to be extremely online. And you saw that play out during the debate, but you're also seeing it play out, you know, throughout this campaign and all of the rallies."

"In Donald Trump's head, you have people with the most extreme and bigoted ideas, who are feeding him lines and memes and encouraging him to go places that no politician in our century and, you know, maybe for the last century and a half, have even thought to go," he added. "I think this is concerning in terms of this bubble of delusion he's created himself: this bubble of extremism and delusion that he'll carry up until the election and past the election."

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