Joe Scarborough Compares Kamala Harris To ‘Rocky Balboa’ — Perhaps Forgetting Rocky LOST in the First Movie

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough compared Vice President Kamala Harris to Sylvester Stallone’s fictional underdog boxer Rocky Balboa as he gloated at Republican panic and former President Donald Trump “melting down” at the Democratic ticket switch up.

Scarborough noted that “Democrats have to be feeling pretty good this morning” and said that “the one thing” Trump “feared was not having Joe Biden.”

The remarks come as Democratic delegates and senior lawmakers back Harris’ run, although she is yet to be officially confirmed as the party’s nominee. Public endorsements by Biden and the Clintons also seem to have cemented the likelihood of Harris’ potential candidacy.

Scarborough told the panel and viewers: “I will tell you, the Republicans are in there freaking out. I mean, you know, here’s the thing, like, if the other side is freaking out and going crazy, you know you’ve got them where you want them. Democrats have to be feeling pretty good this morning. I had heard from inside the Trump campaign for some time right now that the one thing Donald Trump feared was not having Joe Biden.”

Pivoting to a boxing analogy, the Morning Joe host described Harris as a southpaw like Balboa in the 1976 film Rocky – a left-handed boxing stance that is believed to give the fighter a strategic advantage.

He was used to going against Biden, right? What have they done? They switched it up. It’ll be a southpaw now. Rocky is a southpaw.

Scarborough continued:

For children scared this morning, go back and see Rocky. This was the one thing that sort of had him melting down. Most people say that over the last month, he’s been more serene than usual, the trial – the one thing that got to him was the idea he might not be running against Biden – that’s all he’s been focused on since 2020. Now you’re hearing [House Speaker] Mike Johnson… all these other people freaking. ‘This is illegal. You can’t do this. You can’t decide at a convention who your nominee is going to be! You cannot. You cannot… let the delegates decide.’

Well, yeah? You can. You can decide at the convention who your -[candidate is]. It is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard in my life. But, again, the fact they’re freaking out so much has to excite a Democratic Party that was really at its lowest ebb of any party I’ve seen since, let’s say Watergate.

It’s worth noting that Scarborough’s analogy is complicated by the fact Balboa is the older boxer in Rocky, albeit up against a professional fighter, and, awkwardly, [SPOILER ALERT] loses the championship fight in the first movie.

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