MSNBC host Joe Scarborough joined a chorus of other leading Democrat voices on Thursday in calling on President Joe Biden to step down amid former President Donald Trump’s rise in the polls in all the key battleground states, especially after his near-assassination on Saturday during a rally in Butler, Pa.
Scarborough and “Morning Joe” co-host and wife Mika Brzezinski have been defending Biden in recent weeks against calls to drop out. He responded after network correspondent Mike Barnicle said: “You don’t want to see him [Biden] pushed out. You don’t want to see him hurt or humiliated. You want to see him thrive, to be a success, whether he walks away from the nomination or sticks it out for the nomination. You want to see him succeed.”
“Well, we do. We have known him for a long time, Mika and her family [are] extraordinarily close to the Bidens — have always felt the connection,” Scarborough said before going on to list several things he believes Biden has accomplished during his term.
However, he then had to acknowledge some facts about Biden’s deteriorating mental status.
“And so, yeah, Joe Biden has been, at least by our account, Joe Biden’s been an extremely successful president. I will say, though, when you’re told by members of Congress that they’re losing, they’re going to lose the House and the Senate if he stays on the ticket. When you’re told by members of Congress who have seen the polls that you’re losing swing states and that your numbers are going down in swing states, in states like Virginia, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Minnesota are now in play,” Scarborough said.
“And when your top fundraiser over the past five, six, seven, eight years is telling you the money’s gone, the donors have all gone away. You know, it’s really incumbent on people that are around Joe Biden to step up at this point and help the president, and help the man they love and do the right thing,” he continued.
“This is not going, this is not going to end well if it continues to drag out. Look at the events of yesterday. The events of the last three weeks. And at some point, you know, they I can tell you, Mike, the anger that I hear is not at Joe Biden. The anger I hear are at the people that are keeping him in a bubble or who may have their own interests, some financial, in keeping him in the race,” the host went on.
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“That is the real anger. And let me tell you, that’s not just the anger from inside Congress. That is anger from inside the political, his own political camp. And it is widespread. It is widespread. Joe Biden deserves better. He deserves better than he is getting from those closest to him,” Scarborough added.
CNN, which repeatedly lied about Donald Trump during his presidency and since is also becoming increasingly shrill regarding Biden’s chances against his 2020 rival.
During a network segment on Wednesday, correspondent John King and longtime host and anchor Wolf Blitzer discussed current polling numbers for both men and predicted that Trump could be on track to win as many as 330 electoral votes, which, if it happens, would be a resounding rejection of Biden and his Democratic Party’s far-left administration.
“Well, the latest polls show Trump is slightly ahead of Biden in all these key battleground states,” Blitzer said as he brought in King to assess.
“The state of the race on night two of the Republican convention is Donald Trump is leading in this race. Significantly, if you look deep into the polling, he has a chance to build on it,” King said, citing network polling showing Trump on pace to win a whopping 330 electoral votes.
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