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Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough slammed down the notion that Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election to Donald Trump because of sexism during Friday’s show.
MSNBC correspondent Kasie Hunt raised the idea that polling numbers showed Clinton would have fared better if she were a man and that if there was a man on the top of the Democratic ticket, Democrats would have won.
“I don’t know when we’re going to see another candidate who shares those attributes that Hillary Clinton has built over a lifetime of service,” Hunt said. “So, I do think there is some, yes, you can talk about sexism in the broad sense but there’s some very real data that backs up this idea that there were real challenges there for Clinton because she was a woman.”
Scarborough immediately pushed back on Hunt’s comments as he turned to columnist Eugene Robinson.
“Except for the fact, Eugene Robinson, she had a lower honest and trustworthy number than Donald Trump,” Scarborough said. “That had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she was a woman; it had to do with the fact that she just couldn’t get it straight on servers and the Clinton Foundation and every, every single day of her campaign she was being hammered from another side and those numbers just collapsed.”
“That stuff mattered,” co-host Mika Brzezinski said in agreement.