Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews urges Democrats to focus on economy

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Chris Matthews unleashes on Democratic Party, says focus should be on the economy

Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews blasted the Democratic Party on Wednesday, urging its candidates to prioritize the economy, particularly issues of affordability.

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Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews criticized the Democratic Party on Wednesday and said it needed to focus on the economy rather than issues like attacking the Trump administration's immigration policies and defending transgender athletes competing in women’s sports.

While discussing the Democratic Party's low popularity on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Matthews pointed in part to the Biden administration's poor handling of illegal immigration as a reason, saying, "The polling will tell you, the open border — what seemed like an open border for four years.

"Today, the border has been closed since January and not a peep out of any Hispanic leader. Nobody has complained because they know that surge at the border was killing the Democrats."

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Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews waits to go on the air after the Democratic presidential primary debate Feb. 19, 2020, in Las Vegas.  (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Identifying another possible factor in Democrats' sinking approval, Matthews cited how transgender policies impacted the 2024 presidential election.

"On the issue of trans people playing women’s sports, that ad ran in every sports event, starting with the World Series. It never stopped. It showed up around the third quarter, and everybody's like, ‘What’s that? That’s insane.’"

The ad in question from President Donald Trump's campaign featured a narrator telling voters: "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you."

Matthews said issues such as trans people participating in sports were 80/20 issues and added that the party couldn’t make it a lead issue before arguing that Democrats' focus should be on the economy. 

"They’ve got to pick three hard economic issues: interest rates, inflation, tariffs. And they got to say that’s what we’re running on. Not all this other crap," the former MSNBC host said. 

"I’m going to go after real things and affordability and that's how we're going to win the close election, and it's going to be close, in '26." 

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Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews sits down with Stephen Colbert on June 18, 2019, in New York.  (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images)

Co-host Joe Scarborough agreed and suggested the Democratic Party diffuse the issues. 

He urged the acknowledgment that the southern border was a problem during the Biden administration while, at the same time, it was humane in dealing with immigration.

"Then you go to the trans issue. The Democrats just didn’t want to talk about it despite the fact that 85% of Americans did not want men who transitioned after puberty competing against young women, young girls, right? ‘So, of course, we understand why 85% of people are against that. And, no, we don’t think that’s fair. We’re for fairness, but we’re also for compassion. Let’s figure out what we can do here that’s fair to young women, fair to young girls,'" the MSNBC host said. 

Scarborough also emphasized focusing on affordability.  

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