Willie Geist: Republicans Are Acting Like ‘Armchair Quarterbacks’ After Election Day

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GEIST: "And now, and now they’re sort of the armchair quarterbacks, you know, they’re the analysts sitting on a TV show talking about what happened and why and they sort of knew this all along, beginning, Joe, with the vice president of the United States, who made that long post about the Iran war, and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and everyone who may have presidential ambitions trying to separate themselves in some way. In the case of Chip Roy in Texas, he just ran and lost a pretty ugly primary campaign for attorney general in the state of Texas, where he was painted by his opponent as not sufficiently MAGA, despite the fact he was talking about keeping Sharia law from coming to Texas and all this stuff that had nothing to do with the cost of gas and groceries, and he lost that race. So whether they knew it in real time or not, I think most of them did, they were too afraid to say that Republicans were headed for this disaster. And now, only after the results comes in, are they able -- some of them, not all of them -- to say it out loud."