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Things Get Tense on the Set of Morning Joe Following Disastrous Biden Debate: ‘You’re the Only One Raising Your Voice’
By Zachary Leeman,
2 days ago
Things got remarkably tense on the set of Morning Joe as co-host Mika Brzezinski took issue with everyone chalking up President Joe Biden’s debate performance as a disaster.
Co-host Joe Scarborough argued Donald Trump will win the election in November “unless there’s a change” following the CNN debate performance. Contributor Mike Barnicle said Biden let “every fastball” fly by him, and he was not up for the debate.
Brzezinski then jumped in to tell everyone to “calm down.”
“Everybody calm down, and I’ll tell you why. It’s fine not to spin what happened last night, and we’re not going to. He had a terrible night,” she said.
“Mika, everybody’s calm here. You’re the only one raising your voice. Everybody is calm here,” Scarborough told a frustrated Brzezinski.
“It’s the, ‘let’s just immediately pull this, let’s end this, let’s find someone else,” she said.
“That’s not what Mike said,” Scarborough said, jumping back in.
“That attitude toward this…that is what I’m saying slow down on because, again, there’s no spinning it, but let’s be balanced. Let’s, for once, show some balance in a media world that is so shrill with imbalance,” Brzezinski declared.
“We always show balance. Second, nobody’s panicking. I said these are questions Democrats and Joe Biden need to ask themselves, and Mike said he missed one pitch down the middle after another, and he wasn’t up to it last night,” Scarborough responded.
He added there’s a “window closing very quickly” for Democrats in terms of their November ticket.
“It’s not panic at this point to understand what’s at stake in this election,” he said.
The tense exchange between Scarborough and Brzezinski was edited out of Morning Joe when the network rebroadcast a portion of the show at the 8 a.m. hour.
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