MSNBC host Joe Scarborough accused former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill of “shovel[ing] BS around on our set,” after she called the skepticism surrounding 2020 presidential front-runner Joe Biden overblown.
McCaskill, now a network contributor after losing her reelection bid, was on Morning Joe Thursday morning and the panel was discussing the upcoming presidential debate.
“Every Democrat I know that is desperate for Donald Trump to be beaten is worried about Joe Biden,” Scarborough said. “Worried that Joe Biden’s not up to it, worried that Joe Biden is too old, worried that Joe Biden commits too many gaffes, worried this, worried that. It’s all you hear.”
“Right now the overriding fear is Joe Biden is not up to the task of running for president, and for weeks people have been talking about this third debate,” he continued, and then asked McCaskill if the concern was overblown.
“Yeah, kind of,” McCaskill responded. “And I think you’re overstating how worried everybody is too, frankly, Joe.”
The host then cut her off and said, “No, I’m not. No, no, no, Claire, listen. I know that you were a highly respected person in the Democratic Party, but we can’t let you, like, shovel B.S. around on our set, because everybody’s saying it.”
“First of all, just as many people are saying that they’re worried about a nominee that’s too Left. So, I’m not saying there’s no conversation about it Joe, I think you overstated it,” McCaskill pushed back. “Here’s the thing. Joe Biden has withstood a media narrative that from day one was: ‘he’s old, he’s a gaffe machine, he’s yesterday’s news, he can’t get anything right.’ This has been the media narrative on him.”
