‘Donald Trump Was Even Worse’: MSNBC’s Scarborough Offers Post-debate Perspective
Former congressman skewers Republicans as "not serious"
Although President Biden must answer for his abysmal performance in his first presidential debate against Donald Trump, it shouldn’t be forgotten that Trump “was even worse,” according to MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.
Scarborough, a former Republican congressman who today is a political independent and fierce Trump critic, offered a lengthy monologue about the state of the presidential race on his Friday program.
His comments came just a week or so after he broke with his wife and Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, suggesting that while Biden has had a successful presidency it may be time for him to step aside in favor of another Democrat to carry the party’s banner into the November election.
Biden set off alarm bells with a performance against Trump in the June 27 debate which was halting and sometimes incoherent.
“Yeah, I’ll tell you what, so many Democrats on the phone, non-stop since that debate. And there’s panic. No doubt, there’s panic all around. I said eight days ago that the president needed to consider getting out, said that we needed to give it time, needed to see what’s going to happen. And I think we’re still there,” Scarborough said. “I mean, it is July the 5th. This happened eight days ago. And decision time is not upon us yet. And though it may be coming soon, I think we should first honor a man who was first on the ballot 54 years ago by giving him the time and the space to make his decision before we tell him that we’ve made ours.
“This week, there are going to be a lot more polls, there will be more interviews. There’s going to be a NATO summit, and we’re going to have more information to take in. Now, the test of our democracy and of our citizenship is to contemplate different scenarios that could happen if Joe Biden decides to get out of the race,” he added. “But the first is to see where the man is who got all of the Democratic delegates in primary season this past year. We do actually have a democracy still in America. This is not a reality show.
“We cannot make up things as we go along. That’s what the other side does. We must instead watch with open hearts and open minds. And we can’t be Trumpian and yield all of our desires to our dear leader,” Scarborough said.
Scarborough even noted Friday that, even after Biden’s widely panned debate performance, Trump appears to be doing even worse with independent voters.
“Facts are coming in. Facts will keep coming in over the past week. And we stipulate right here and right now that Trump’s Republicans are not serious about their politics, they’re not serious about their party, they’re not serious about this republic,” said Scarborough. “Unfortunately, last week’s debate reinforced that sorry truth more than ever. Because, get this, you probably missed this with all the whining that was going on out there over the past week: As bad as Joe Biden was that night — and he was historically bad — Donald Trump was even worse with his lies.
“And if you saw any of the polls that came out that had Joe Biden losing a few points, you may have noticed, as The New York Times wrote, that independent voters took notice and that Donald Trump actually lost independent voters in that debate. I find that staggering.”
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