Morning Joe Panel: VP Rollout And Convention Speech Plagiarism Shows Trump Campaign Is “Dysfunctional” And “Careless”

Frank Bruni: “Nothing” In Trump's Campaign “Is Happening With Any Discipline, Nothing Is Happening With Any Thoroughness”

From the July 19 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:

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NICOLLE WALLACE: I was in the hall. [Melania Trump's speech] was the high mark of the night by a mile. 

MIKA BRZEZINSKI (CO-HOST): So exciting.

WALLACE: She was elegant, she was articulate, she was funny. 

BRZEZINSKI: Star.

WALLACE: She delivered the grace note to Bob Dole. It fell to her to sort of be the statesperson of the family. But what it speaks to is this question I keep asking, why isn't he getting better and why isn't this campaign getting better? And she's now the first victim of this sort of campaign that is mired in mayhem and sloppiness. 

JOE SCARBOROUGH (CO-HOST): A campaign chaos, make no mistake, if somebody is sitting at home and doesn't know politics, this is not about Melania Trump. 

WALLACE: No.

SCARBOROUGH: This is about a campaign that is dysfunctional --

WALLACE: That's dysfunctional. 

CHRIS CILLIZZA: Careless. Deeply careless. 

SCARBOROUGH: -- that's not developed, that's careless and, again --

BRZEZINSKI: Treats people like they're stupid.

SCARBOROUGH: -- doesn't have the institutional controls in place that can win general elections. It's why --

CILLIZZA: You can't let this happen. It's such an avoidable error. 

SCARBOROUGH: Frank it's what I've been saying.

FRANK BRUNI: It's a continuation of the vice presidential rollout. Nothing is happening with any discipline, nothing is happening with any thoroughness. And if you're asking people let me run the country and this the sort of stuff that keeps happening, how do you give voters any confidence in your management?

Previously:

NBC's Mike Murphy: Republicans Had “A Very Bad First Day” At GOP Convention

ABC's Matthew Dowd: Trump Campaign Has Not Been “Disciplined Enough” To Stay On Message At GOP Convention

MSNBC Panel On Melania Trump’s Plagiarized Speech: “This Turns This Night Into A Catastrophe”