“If Democrats win, they should focus on the most unifying issue: Ukraine”: Joe Scarborough answers reader questions

Answering reader mail, MS NOW host Joe Scarborough argues that a Democratic win in Congress next month should begin with Ukraine, the issue he sees as most likely to draw Republican votes. He predicts bipartisan bills backed by veto-proof margins, since many GOP senators are alarmed that Donald Trump is cooperating with Vladimir Putin, a former KGB spy.

Scarborough adds that lawmakers from both parties could reclaim Congress's authority over tariffs and war declarations, which he says Republican majorities have handed to Trump for two years. He contends the resulting tariffs and wars act like taxes on middle-class families. He also expects bipartisan anti-corruption measures targeting the Trump family's profiting from office, plus active oversight committees probing pay-to-play schemes. He cites a Fox News poll listing corruption as voters' top concern in 2026.

On Russian interference, Scarborough says he has no doubt Putin influenced American elections in 2016, 2020, and 2024 and is spreading disinformation now. He also credits Bobby Kennedy with inspiring his entry into politics, citing Kennedy's decision to tell Black voters in Indianapolis about Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination on April 4, 1968, despite police warnings.

Summarized by PolitiKool from MS NOW’s reporting. Read the full story at MS NOW →