Lawyer Doug Emhoff gets soft ball interview on Morning Joe, doesn't deny he hit his girlfriend

Did I mention he's a lawyer?

 

Joe Biden calls in to Morning Joe and defies the Democrats who say he should drop out

It's been a week since the awful internal polling broke and Joe remains defiant and dismissive of the facts.

Trump is +3.3 in the Real Clear Politics national polling average and 312-226 in the no-toss-ups Electoral College vote. Biden's approval/disapproval spread is back up and is almost as bad as his -20.7 point spread from July 2022.

I suppose because it's not worse than that the Biden campaign figures it's weathered the storm of the debate exposing his condition.

Meanwhile the cognitive flubs have become a daily feature so routine it's downright boring.

 

 

 

Trump unfurls frugal $24 million slingshot, fells $157 million giant named Bush

WaPo reports here:

[Y]ou have to give Trump a lot of credit for grasping early on that he didn't need to blanket the Iowa or New Hampshire airwaves with costly ads. Instead, he just sent tweets. Or called into "Morning Joe." Like it or not, Trump has redefined what money -- or, more specifically, fundraising -- means in the context of political campaigns.

Chris Christie dropped out of the race today, notably on friendly terms with Donald Trump

Reported here:

“I think that Chris did an amazing job in terms of the debate, as a prosecutor, and he’s a friend of mine,” Donald Trump said Wednesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “And he actually called me last night, and we had a long talk, and he’s a little disappointed because he really did do a great job, he did an amazing job during that debate,” he added.

Sen. Manchin Wants To Know Why We Need 30-Round Clips?

To fight back against these when they can't, or won't.

Story here:

“I don’t know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle,” Manchin said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I don’t know anybody that needs 30 rounds in the clip to go hunting. I mean, these are things that need to be talked about.”

Whatayah Mean 'Yesterday'?

“I thought he was a dick yesterday,” [Mark] Halperin, who also is a senior political analyst for MSNBC, said on Morning Joe, referring to the President’s conduct during his press conference.

Story here.