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McKinnon Defends Biden On Afghanistan, Geist Tags NC Republican Candidate as ‘Cr

Willie Geist Jonathan Lemire MSNBC Morning Joe 9-9-24It’s general election season, and the presumably more centrist voices on CNN and MSNBC were anything but this morning.

On Morning Joe, Willie Geist has traditionally been a relatively temperate voice, a counterweight to the rabid liberal partisanship of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

And Mark McKinnon, a co-founder of No Labels, is at least in theory the embodiment of bipartisanship.

But on today’s Morning Joe and CNN This Morning, Geist and McKinnon  tilted strongly in favor of Harris and the Democrats.

Discussing the disastrous Biden-Harris withdrawal from Afghanistan, in which 13 US servicemen were killed by a suicide bomber at Abbey Gate, McKinnon rose to the Democrats’ defense, and even shifted blame to Donald Trump.

McKinnon began by contradicting host Kasie Hunt, suggesting that the withdrawal will not be a big campaign issue: “I don’t get a…

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