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Mika Brzezinski Joe Scarborough MSNBC Morning Joe 11-5-24 Are you sure it isn’t 900 MILLION?

I mean, as long as you’re gonna exaggerate, Joe, why not shoot for the moon?

On the Election Day episode of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough made a pathetic attempt to build optimism for Kamala Harris.

Scarborough told the story of a “life-long Texas Republican voter” who moved to Pennsylvania. The man told Scarborough that he had nine door knocks from Kamala volunteers until he finally voted. And since his wife, even then, hadn’t voted, there were nine more Kamala door knocks until she voted, too. But the man didn’t receive a single door knock from anyone on behalf of Trump.

What Scarborough well knows but didn’t disclose is that the final days of a campaign are all about GOTV: getting out the vote of your voters. The self-described “Never Trumper” Texas Republican who moved to Pennsylvania presumably registered there as a Democrat. 

During GOTV, volunteers aren’t sent out into the field to randomly knock on doors. They’re given lists and a walking route that will take them to the doors of people believed to be supporting their party. If a Trump door knocker had turned up at the Never Trumper’s door, it would only have been by mistake!

Even more deceptively, Scarborough claimed that Kamala has 900,000 door-knocking volunteers in Pennsylvania. A recent Time magazine article indicated the real number is 110,000.  An internet search suggests that Scarborough claimed for Pennsylvania the total number of Kamala volunteers in the entire country! 

Here’s the transcript.

MSNBC
Morning Joe
11/5/24
6:06 am EDT

WILLIE GEIST: Watching Vice President Harris’ day of rallies yesterday —

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Oh my!

GEIST: — and we’ll contrast it with Donald Trump’s, all the anxiety we keep hear about — and it’s real among voters about which way this election could go — clearly has turned into energy and action and purpose for people who have gone out in droves to volunteer for Kamala Harris.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Right.

GEIST: To knock on doors. They had more volunteers than shifts. They had to find other jobs for people to do.

MIKA: That’s amazing.

GEIST: Yes, of course there is anxiety. Yes, people are worried about which way this could tip. But people have done the right thing, which is to get into the fight and try to make adifference.

SCARBOROUGH: And you’re starting to hear, as we get near the end, Jonathan Lemire, some anecdotal evidence that follows up.

When you hear 900,000 Harris volunteers knocking on doors across Pennsylvania.

I, I heard last night from someone who was a Republican in Texas. Turned into a Never Trumper but didn’t tell anybody. Moved up to Pennsylvania. Nine knocks — had voted Republican his entire life. Nine knocks on the door from Harris people every three days. When he finally voted to say, okay, I’ll vote, his wife had not voted. Nine more knocks until the wife went to vote.

And he said, that was not the remarkable part. The remarkable part was, a lifelong Texas Republican voter who moved to Pennsylvania didn’t get one knock on the door from anybody in the Trump campaign, from any Republican.

MIKA: Oh wow.