Morning Joe started with a focus on Trump blanking out and misnaming people while on stage, but moved on to the fact that the majority of voters are blaming Republicans for not passing the bipartisan border bill.
“There’s a lot to talk about with the (NYT/Siena) poll and the freakout, but the biggest takeaway for me is how Trump reacted this weekend, which i think is a reaction to Biden taking him on directly at the border,” former White House adviser Jennifer Palmieri said.
“If anything comes out of the New York Times poll that’s productive, it is that we have attention deficit disorder when it comes to paying attention to what Joe Biden is doing and what his positions are. Biden went to the border. Trump took the bait and went to the border, too. Biden finally broke through because we’re paying attention to both of them.
“By the way, it matters. One poll showed 63% of people think House Republicans are to blame for stopping the bipartisan border bill. And they did it because they wanted to help Donald Trump. Then Trump freaks out and has, you know, three days of the kind of display we saw over the weekend. A way for Biden to break through is to find the direct confrontation.”
