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‘A New Approach’

On Morning Joe’s Trump diplomacy.
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President Joe Biden shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office in Washington, D.C., on November 13, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

There isn’t much left of the Never Trump movement, I realize, but I did not anticipate that a formal surrender might air on The Resistance’s favorite network.

Watch the first five minutes of this clip, which knocked political media for a loop on Monday.

Morning Joe is MSNBC’s flagship morning news program, famously wielding outsized influence within official Washington like a cable-news version of Politico’s Playbook.

Nick Catoggio is a staff writer at The Dispatch and is based in Texas. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 16 years gradually alienating a populist readership at Hot Air. When Nick isn’t busy writing a daily newsletter on politics, he’s … probably planning the next day’s newsletter.

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