If President Joe Biden successfully resists some extraordinary calls in the media to abandon his reelection effort following , he may reflect on the moment that MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski looked into the camera Monday to begin a 15-minute essay of support. The “Morning Joe” co-host denounced the “screaming, mocking, jeering” headlines and editorials suggesting Biden leave the campaign following several halting, confused passages by the president during his CNN debate with former President Donald Trump. The New York Times editorial board , along with some of the newspaper's columnists.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution followed suit in a on Sunday. The New Yorker's editor David Remnick that “there is honor in recognizing the hard demands of the moment.” The Washington Post Biden spent the weekend soul-searching.
“It has been a collective nervous breakdown like nothing I've ever seen,” said Chris Whipple, author of “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House.” Nowhere, perhaps, were raw nerves exposed quite like they've been on “Morning Joe,” where co-hosts Brzezinski and her husband, Joe Scarborough, have been among Biden's most consistent supporters. With Biden , there's often a sense that the show's guests are talking to the president, when Trump was in office.
A funereal Scarborough suggested Friday that Biden consider abandoning the campaign, saying that “if he were CEO and he turned in a performance like that, would any Fortune 500 company.