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Five-alarm fire: Joe urges voters to focus on Trump's call for 'nationalized' election in 15 states

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Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Five-alarm fire: Joe urges voters to focus on Trump's call for 'nationalized' election in 15 states

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0:00.0

Unfortunately, you know, we've been warning the administration about the enforcement that's been going on.

0:07.0

We thought that there should have been a course correction a long time ago, and now I guess it's going to be forced on us by the Democrats.

0:14.0

Unfortunately, we could have done it ourselves. We should have done it ourselves.

0:18.0

Well, when you say, when you say course correction, what specifically do you want to see happen? What should have happened? We should have been focusing on criminals and gang members and people with active deportation orders. I don't think we should have been focusing on people that have been here for a long time, grandmothers, et cetera, that happen to be in a neighborhood when you're doing an enforcement action. I think that

0:38.3

that was a mistake and I think it's coming back to Haunus right now.

0:43.0

Republican Congressman Carlos Jimenez of Florida among the growing number of GOP lawmakers

0:48.4

speaking out against ICE operations and its impact on the party. We'll dig more into that just ahead. Plus, we'll go

0:56.8

through president. And Mika, wasn't it interesting, though? I mean, that, that is a rank and file

1:01.3

Republican. You just don't usually hear from rank and file Republicans. And Willie, it's,

1:06.4

it's interesting. You saw where he was coming from. He's come from Miami. That's a place that

1:10.5

elected their first Democratic mayor since 1993. You have Florida. You saw where he was coming from. He's come from Miami. That's a place that elected their first Democratic mayor since 1993. You have Florida. You've been having

1:15.6

Republicans in Florida warning what was going on. I mean, this is, again, this is crazy.

1:21.5

Just a year, year and a half ago, Republicans were enjoying the kind of success in Hispanic

1:26.7

communities that they had not enjoyed

1:28.6

since 2004 when George W. Bush got about 45% of the Hispanic vote. Since then, they've been

1:34.9

down in the 20s. They jump back up and boom. You look at every poll, the numbers have just

1:40.6

dropped precipitously for Republicans and Hispanic communities.

1:45.9

Yeah, it's in the numbers.

1:57.5

And as you know as well as anyone, Joe, you would not have a Republican Congress and going on television with that message if you were not hearing that loudly from his constituents, from his district, from the people that he serves.

2:01.2

And this is the argument that many supporters even of Donald Trump,

2:04.7

conservatives, podcast hosts that supported Donald Trump have been saying,

2:08.1

go get the bad guys. That's what you told us you were going to do.

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