NBC’s Chuck Todd Pushes Back On Trump ‘Losing Streak’: Has 2016 ‘Swagger’ — ‘Loose And Funny’ At Recent Events
NBC News Chief Political Analyst Chuck Todd pushed back on the idea that former President Donald Trump is on a “losing streak” by citing his “swagger” and performance at some recent events, saying Trump was “oddly loose and funny” in Detroit.
Last weekend, Trump campaigned in Detroit by holding a roundtable at a Black church that drew a largely White crowd and appearing at another event that got attention when Trump bragged about his performance on a cognitive test but flubbed the doctor’s name.
On Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC’s Katy Tur Reports, anchor Katy Tur hosted Todd and correspondent Vaughn Hillyard to game out the race between Trump and President Joe Biden.
Tur pointed out Trump’s “losing streak” in 2020 and the midterms in 2018 and 2022, and asked Todd why people should believe he’s better off now and Biden is worse off:
KATY TUR: And okay was when you talk about the big galvanizing moments for his base.
But Chuck, he still is on a losing streak. He lost in ’20. He lost in 2018, by the way. The party lost in 2018, the Republican Party. He lost the presidency in 2020. He should have done a whole lot better in 2022 than the Republican Party did.
Why should we believe that this moment is different? That suddenly, President Biden and the Democrats are so much weaker today than they were two years ago, than they were four years ago, than they were six years ago?
CHUCK TODD: Well, because it’s the party in the White House. I don’t mean to simplify this, but, you know, Donald Trump’s rhetoric, even and — even his sort of swagger looks more like 2016 and the campaign you covered so closely, Katy, than he looks in 2020.
And in fact, I was just discussing this with somebody we all know on this call, on this, on this program.
I’m going to leave his name out of it because he didn’t know I was going to quote him just now, but he even noted —
We were talking about this idea that when Trump’s losing, the worst version of Trump shows up, and when Trump’s winning or he thinks he’s ahead, he’s actually a different person, a different candidate.
And I mean, just, I think Vaughn could probably speak to this now, the Donald Trump in Detroit, and those events he did, he was oddly loose. He was trying to be funny and, and all of this.
Where from about 2017 to 2022, we had, and even 2023 through the primaries, it’s been nothing but angry grievance Trump. Right? Angry, angry, angry!
It’s interesting if if he somehow drops the grievance, but he could end up looking more like that 2016 candidate where he’s the outside disrupter.
Watch above via MSNBC’s Katy Tur Reports.
