Morning Joe Crew Mocks Trump for Torpedoing Canada’s ‘Mini Trump’ in Election: ‘Stunning Rebuke!’

MSNBC’s Morning Joe crew mocked President Donald Trump for tanking the election victory hopes of Canada’s Conservative Party with his “51st State” rhetoric and tariffs.

Trump’s threats and jabs became a defining issue for a federal election that saw the country’s Liberal party gain a fourth term in office, led by newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney. The party was seen as utterly deflated after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned and Conservatives hoped to win big.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, however, conceded defeat early Tuesday, in what Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough called a “stunning rebuke.”

The Washington Post is just, checking the headlines, called Mark Carney and the Liberal party’s comeback a “stunning comeback.” The Wall Street Journal called it “a dramatic turnaround” and the Conservative Party leader, who had been basically aping American politics and trying to turn himself into a mini Trump actually not only lost his bid to be prime minister but lost his individual seat that he’d been holding for 20 years.

It was a stunning reversal and a stunning rebuke for Conservatives in Canada. You know, Carney ran a remarkable campaign and, still with Mike Myers, and I’m serious, put out perhaps the best political commercial I’ve seen in a decade.

Co-host Willie Geist agreed, saying that just a couple of months ago, “the Conservatives were the favorite to win.”

“Everything changed when Donald Trump first put on the tariffs and then talked relentlessly, including in the last couple of days, about making Canada the 51st state, saying: ‘It is meant to be. Let me come and take over Canada,'” he continued.

Geist added: “Well, there was a complete rejection of that inside of Canada by the voters. And Mark Carney, who won last night with the Liberal party, the incoming prime minister, to succeed Justin Trudeau. You heard it again last night, defiant, saying, ‘We are a sovereign nation and we will be that way when I sit down with Donald Trump.’ There has been an ‘American betrayal’ said the new prime minister of Canada. ‘Our great friend on the border. And we have to change the way we look at the United States.'”

“And that message really, really resonated in the last couple of months with voters in Canada,” he said.

Scarborough replied: “Liberals were down about 22-23 points in polls and they won last night. And they’re waiting this morning to see if they actually have an outright majority to run parliament in Canada. It was really one of the most stunning political turnarounds in quite some time.”

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