MSNBC’s Meet The Press host Chuck Todd on Sunday blamed Former President Trump for Joe Biden’s low approval ratings. And accused President Trump of “coup”
“By way of foundation for all the rest, Trump and his party have convinced a dauntingly large number of Americans that the essential workings of democracy are corrupt, that made-up claims of fraud are true, that only cheating can thwart their victory at the polls, that tyranny has usurped their government, and that violence is a legitimate response,” Todd quoted from an Atlantic piece asking “hyperbolic or fact?”
To which NBC analyst John Heilemann responded, “fact!” Adding, “This is 30 million people right now who are ready to take up arms — You put that together with what the president, the former president I should say, and his allies are doing in the political realm, state houses, state legislatures, and the party apparatus to be able to engineer a situation where they are in a stronger position to pull off a coup in 2024 than they were in 2020. That’s not hyperbolic at all. These are all facts.”
Todd then added “it seems as if there’s nothing the White House can do to improve their political standing these days. It does feel like every week there’s another poll and it’s a new bottom; it’s a new this.”
At a later point in this segment, Boston Globe opinion writer Atkins Stohr claimed that Republicans are not allowing Biden to govern. Completely ignoring the fact that Democrats are currently controlling both chambers of Congress and the Executive Branch.
“You have Republicans who are lock solid against him and won’t vote for anything, no matter how many times Joe Manchin says he wants bipartisanship. So, it’s about where do you assign that blame, who is against every measure, including vaccine mandates that could get us past this pandemic. Is that Joe Biden? Where does the blame actually lie?”
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