Scarborough: There Is ‘No Doubt’ Tim Walz Won the Debate

SCARBOROUGH: “There’s no doubt that despite the fact, if you look at the numbers, Waltz won this debate. If you look at the CNN poll — polling, it shows Vance a slight advantage, but in terms of favorability, again, his favorability rating went up 59 percent, Unfavorable 22 percent, Vance 41 percent, and 44. Well, you know, as you’re looking at that number, it’s really interesting. You look at that number, Eddie, and I go back — and let’s keep that up for a second — I go back to what Elise just said. He’s a guy in your hometown.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.”
SCARBOROUGH: “And that’s that’s the effect he gave off.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.”
SCARBOROUGH: “And he — he was nervous last night. He started out nervous. He found his footing, but it was an uneven performance at best. And I’m reminded what Andy Card said about George W. Bush. He said the thing that elites make the most fun of, the fact that Bush talks like a regular guy, that Bush is smooth — is not a smooth talker, his syntax is a little off, said what the elites —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Right.”
SCARBOROUGH: “— at ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Washington Post’ don’t understand is that’s why regular guys like Bush so much.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Joe Biden.”
SCARBOROUGH: “And you can say the same thing about Joe Biden. But you look at the favorable/unfavorables after the debate, and you just kind of wonder if they’re looking at the Ivy League guy and seeing what a smooth talker he was, and then the regular guy who — who again stumbled around a little bit, was — was nervous. But they’re thinking, ‘Yeah, who wouldn’t be nervous?’ And maybe that’s why his favorabilities went up so much. I don’t know. I mean, it’s kind of like when you and I talk, you’re an Ivy League guy, very smooth, I — I’m a — I’m a country lawyer. I struggle getting through a sentence. I struggle getting through a sentence. It’s kind of like —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Eddie.”
SCARBOROUGH: “— when I was at Gettysburg, and I was there. Oh, I’m a knucklehead. You just go ahead and answer the question.”