Nicolle Wallace: ‘My Father Is So Mad at Me’ for Calling Trump ‘a Clown’

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SCARBOROUGH: “OK. I just don't know where to go from there. He seems -- if this is possible, if this is possible, he seems to be getting even more confident. So, you have run Republican campaigns, you have been through this. I remember you telling me one time a year ago, said, it takes more money to run in a large state for Senate than it does to run for president of the United States in the early stages. You said, it's all about catching lightning in a bottle. Donald Trump has lightning like all over the place. What’s going on –“

WALLACE: “Listen, I think he is the lightning, right? I think he's the lightning and the thunder. And I think that to talk about Donald Trump and think you can do that without disparaging his now very animated, very passionate supporters, is the mistake that the elites keep making.” [Crosstalk]

SCARBOROUGH: “Well, they've been calling them fools for a very long time. And yet, and yesterday, by the way, I saw on Sunday weekend shows, people talking about, oh, it's lower class, it's uneducated –“

WALLACE: “My father –“

SCARBOROUGH: “Your father likes Trump?”

WALLACE: “-- is so mad at me for calling him a clown and I called him hideous, sitting right there, my dad said, knock it out, I love him!”

SCARBOROUGH: “By the way, my brother, very well educated, he's got a great job, hard worker, has voted for every Republican nominee since he was 18 years old. He loves Trump too.”