On today’s Morning Joe, MSNBC reporter Ali Vitali twice used the d-word, for “despair,” to describe the mood of congressional Democrats over the dilemma as to whether Biden should remain the nominee or step aside.
Vitali’s very first words set the tone:
“I haven’t talked to anyone who’s a [Dem] staffer, who is an operative, who’s an elected, who doesn’t say some form of this sentence, “I love Joe Biden, but.” . . . There was just a real sense on the Hill yesterday of despair.”
Vitali sounded the d-word again in her closing comments:
“There is such a sense of despair that has been hanging over the Capitol as I’ve been working the halls the last few days.”
Presumably, Obama didn’t order Vitali to say this, in contrast to Mika’s suggestion yesterday that Obama arranged for George Clooney to write his op-ed calling on Biden to quit.
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