Trump campaign has 'really lost the plot' as new scandals pile up: MSNBC analyst

On Thursday morning the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was stunned by Donald Trump's faltering presidential campaign which is finding itself spending precious time pushing back on gaffes and scandals as it slips behind in the polls.

With fill-in host Jonathan Lemire pointing to blowback from Trump's controversial visit to Arlington National Cemetery for a photo-op which has resulted a furious backlash from veterans and their families, he also highlighted Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance telling Vice President Kamala Harris to "go to hell."

That led one MSNBC political analyst to claim the Trump campaign is derailing itself.

Noting that a complaint was made about Trump aides engaging an altercation with a cemetery staffer that then allegedly led to Trump's spokesperson attacking that person afterward, Lemire remarked, "In a normal campaign, campaign of years past, if there had been an altercation between a staffer, a campaign staffer and someone who works the cemetery, it'd be the campaign staffer immediately fired or at least suspended."

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"Instead, we have the Trump team doubling, tripling down, and defending that staffer and attacking the person at the cemetery," he added. "It does reiterate what the Harris team is saying and others in the political world are saying: the nation is exhausted by Donald Trump."

"Because you're right," MSNBC's Ali Vitali agreed. "In any normal campaign, they were invited, that is their right to accept the invitation and go there — that all makes sense. But when you're arguing with the staff at Arlington National Cemetery, I think you've really lost the plot there."

"I will say there is a report, there was a tangible report filed. That is something that members of Congress, I believe, have asked for; certainly, I am inclined and interested to see it. That's something I think could shed continued light on this situation," she continued. "But if you're arguing with the staff at one of America's most sacred sites, I think you've clearly lost the message."

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"The other piece, too, as I listened to J.D. Vance there, he is the person who, rightly, after the attempted assassination of his running mate, said that everyone needs to take the rhetoric down," she added. "He blamed Democrats for ratcheting it up. Certainly, we've seen a ratcheting up across the board, largely, in part, because of former president Trump himself and the way he attacks and goes at his political enemies as he perceives them. But that comment from Vance basically telling the vice president of the United States to 'go to hell,' that is completely anathema to what he said and yet another moment we are in a place of, having gone through a period of saying, well, the Trump campaign will take the rhetoric down in a sober-minded statement after the attempted assassination, and here we are, back at this point."

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