Tapper Tells Scarborough Biden Was So Focused to Convince ‘Morning Joe’ that He’s Fine: ‘He Focused on You Like You Were a Constituency’

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TAPPER: “Now, one thing in your specific case, Joe, our reporting indicates that Joe Biden, who, as you know, is a frequent viewer of the show saw when David Ignatius wrote that column and I think August, 2023, saying that Joe Biden should not run for reelection because what of he's been hearing.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Right.”
TAPPER: “And he came on this show and you guys had a robust conversation about this. You largely agreed that you'd been hearing things about this, but that there was really no alternative, that Kamala Harris was not up to the job. That's what Democrats were telling you behind the scenes. Joe Biden saw that. Joe Biden said to staffers that he wanted to convince you that you were wrong. And he focused on you like you were a constituency, like you were farmers in Iowa, like you were the Kiwanis club in New Hampshire. And he made sure that you thought --“
SCARBOROUGH: “Farmer Joe. Yeah.”
TAPPER: “-- he made sure that you thought differently. I think he did this with a couple people. I think he did it with Meacham. He might've done it with Evan Osnos. He knew that there were people that had to be convinced that he was fine. And he -- and he tried to prove that to you.”