“He couldn’t fact-check anything Donald Trump said. Not only that, but he missed one layup after another, after another, after another,” Scarborough said.
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Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s left-leaning “Morning Joe” and an ally of President Joe Biden, delivered a stinging review Friday of Biden’s debate performance, openly questioning whether Biden should stay in the race and predicting that if he does, former President Donald Trump will win another term—adding to the growing chorus of anti-Trump pundits suggesting Biden should be replaced.Key Facts
Scarborough began his review of Thursday’s debate—in which Biden repeatedly gave incoherent answers—by lauding the president’s record and saying he “love[s]” Biden, before questioning rhetorically “if he were CEO, and he turned in a performance like that, would any corporation in America keep him on as CEO?”
Biden, Scarborough said, couldn’t “fact-check anything Donald Trump said” and “missed one layup after another,” noting Biden “couldn’t even respond effectively on the issue of abortion,” referring to Biden’s hard-to-follow pivot to a story about a woman who was raped by an undocumented migrant in response to a question about abortion policy—a key issue voters and a frequent attack point for Biden and his campaign against Trump.
