MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough declared his "love" for President Biden but admitted that his debate performance against former President Trump calls into question whether Biden should be running for re-election.
It's Monday morning, just 126 days before the most consequential election of our lifetime. But two men named Joe are curiously absent from the public eye:
Joe Biden.
Joe Scarborough.
The first, of course, is the current president of the United States and commander-in-chief of our armed forces. Yet Biden is enjoying yet another long weekend away from the White House and won't be arriving back from Camp David until 8:30 pm tonight.
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Yep, no sense of urgency whatsoever at a time when the rest of the party is at DEFCON 1 on the panic front following an absolute train wreck of a performance on Thursday night during the presidential debate in Atlanta.
Meanwhile, Scarborough, the former Republican congressman who helped get Donald Trump elected in 2016 by having him on his MSNBC morning program no less than 41 times, is also laying low. Before he turned on Trump, his interviews were so fawning, so cartoonish, so hospitable, that Matt Taibbi wrote this at the time in Rolling Stone:
"Joe Scarborough and........