Some of MSNBC’s most prominent liberal personalities have criticized Joe Biden’s debate performance and questioned his viability as a candidate.
But in the days since Biden’s halting debate performance, there has been a different reality on the network that employs two of his former top aides. MSNBC’s marquee names have issued harsh reviews; some have even raised questions about his campaign and fitness for office.
The new dynamic started immediately after Thursday’s debate, when a panel of MSNBC luminaries took an even harder edge.Biden’s “job was to calm his party,” said MSNBC host Joy Reid. “To make them feel that: ‘Yes, I can do this. I have four more years in me. I have the ability and the stamina and the strength to do four more years.’ He did not do that. He did the opposite of that.”
“What do you think that people who support President Biden, people in Democratic politics, people who are planning on voting for him, who are worried that he seemed older than they expected tonight, that he didn’t seem to reassure people on stamina issues, as Joy was saying before — what should people do?”Media observers took note of MSNBC’s tone, considering the network’s longtime role as a balm for the anxiety of its left-leaning viewers.
Perhaps the most significant shift occurred on the network’s morning show “Morning Joe,” which has reliably trumpeted Biden and hosted relatively sympathetic interviews with the president and Vice President Harris.. That’s what made it so surprising when the host began his Friday morning broadcast by saying that Biden “tragically did not rise to the occasion last night.”
On Monday morning, Scarborough’s co-host Mika Brzezinski took a different tack, suggesting that calls for Biden’s departure from the race were premature. “Trying to pretend this wasn’t the indisputable catastrophe that it was would destroy any pretense of credibility that MSNBC has,” he said.
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