Showing that his partisan hackery on behalf of the Democratic Party truly knows no bounds, as he opened MSNBC’s MTP Daily on Wednesday, anchor Chuck Todd went to work trashing President Trump’s closing campaign message as “scorched earth” while hailing a new Joe Biden ad as being reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” spot.
“The candidate’s closing arguments could not be more different. President Trump is stirring up feuds, Joe Biden is urging voters to take on problems not each other,” Todd proclaimed at the top of the show, following DNC talking points perfectly. Moments later, he repeated the narrative and made sure to tell viewers to ignore the growing corruption scandal surrounding Joe and Hunter Biden, still clinging to the false notion the story was part of some Russian conspiracy:
And right now we are seeing two very, very different closing messages from these two campaigns to kick off this final stretch. The President stirring up feuds. He hit the trail in Pennsylvania last night, escalating this rhetoric around this idea that Joe Biden is somehow a corrupt criminal who should be in jail. The President has been leaning on his administration to open a criminal investigation so he can say that there is an investigation into the Bidens. Based primarily, it seems, off the unverified contents of a mysterious laptop that somehow Rudy Giuliani got his hands on that some officials worry is tied to a Russian intelligence op.
Todd bitterly sneered: “To put it simply, the President’s closing message is a familiar, if amped up version, of the scorched Earth divisive politics of the last four-plus years.”
After sufficiently slamming the Trump campaign, like any good Democrat, Todd swooned over the Biden team: “The Biden campaign, meanwhile, is striking a notable contrast to that message with an ad that hit the airways last night during the World Series, targeting the millions of people who are not focused on politics but focused on Dodgers vs. Rays. Here’s a bit of that spot.”
A lengthy clip followed of the ad, in which actor Sam Elliot tries to trick voters into thinking Biden and the Democrats have been preaching national unity even as left-wing rioters have been burning American cities:
There is only one America. No Democratic rivers, no Republican mountains. Just this great land and all that’s possible on it, with a fresh start. There is so much we can do if we choose to take on problems and not each other. And choose a president who brings out our best. Joe Biden doesn’t need everyone in this country to always agree, just to agree we all love this country and go from there.
Almost misty-eyed, Todd followed: “And let’s go from there. The ad is drawing comparisons, and I think correctly, to President Reagan’s famous ‘Morning in America’ ad.”
Talking to correspondent Carol Lee minutes later, Todd continued to cheerlead for Biden while claiming Trump had nothing to offer:
And Carol, going back to this closing message business here, you know, the Biden campaign, it’s – in some ways they’ve been telegraphing this closing message from the beginning of his campaign, right? “Fight for the soul of the country,” you see where he’s closing, Barack Obama is now. What is the closing message of the Trump campaign? Because it is all grievance? Is it all complaints? Does he have anything to sell?
Todd long ago gave up even trying to be a journalist, he’s all in for Democrats and will make sure to use his position at NBC News to make as many in-kind contributions to Biden on air as he can in the final days before the election.
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Here is a transcript of the October 21 segment:
1:00 PM ET
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CHUCK TODD: The candidate’s closing arguments could not be more different. President Trump is stirring up feuds, Joe Biden is urging voters to take on problems not each other.
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1:01 PM ET
TODD: President Trump has yet to put a noticeable dent in Biden’s lead since he expanded it after the first debate. And right now we are seeing two very, very different closing messages from these two campaigns to kick off this final stretch. The President stirring up feuds. He hit the trail in Pennsylvania last night, escalating this rhetoric around this idea that Joe Biden is somehow a corrupt criminal who should be in jail. The President has been leaning on his administration to open a criminal investigation so he can say that there is an investigation into the Bidens. Based primarily, it seems, off the unverified contents of a mysterious laptop that somehow Rudy Giuliani got his hands on that some officials worry is tied to a Russian intelligence op.
The President’s final stretch feuding doesn’t stop there. He’s also in recent days attacked the nation’s most trusted public health official, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as his campaign desperately tries to turn the page on a pandemic that is sadly now once again raging across the country and really hitting rural America very hard. The President is even drawing attention to an incident where he apparently abruptly ended a contentious interview with 60 Minutes at the White House.
To put it simply, the President’s closing message is a familiar, if amped up version, of the scorched Earth divisive politics of the last four-plus years. I mean, think about it. Ever since he recovered from the virus he has been, shall we say, amped up.
The Biden campaign, meanwhile, is striking a notable contrast to that message with an ad that hit the airways last night during the World Series, targeting the millions of people who are not focused on politics but focused on Dodgers vs. Rays. Here’s a bit of that spot.
SAM ELLIOT: There is only one America. No Democratic rivers, no Republican mountains. Just this great land and all that’s possible on it, with a fresh start. There is so much we can do if we choose to take on problems and not each other. And choose a president who brings out our best. Joe Biden doesn’t need everyone in this country to always agree, just to agree we all love this country and go from there.
TODD: And let’s go from there. The ad is drawing comparisons, and I think correctly, to President Reagan’s famous “Morning in America” ad. Sort of think about it a bit in reverse, right?
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1:07 PM ET
TODD: Let me move now to the Trump campaign, Charlotte, North Carolina, or just outside of Charlotte, where we find Carol Lee. And Carol, going back to this closing message business here, you know, the Biden campaign, it’s – in some ways they’ve been telegraphing this closing message from the beginning of his campaign, right? “Fight for the soul of the country,” you see where he’s closing, Barack Obama is now. What is the closing message of the Trump campaign? Because it is all grievance? Is it all complaints? Does he have anything to sell?
CAROL LEE: Well, Chuck, I think it depends on who you ask, but you make a great point in that Biden’s campaign has kind of become a full circle. We’re seeing the full arc of it, where he started and where he is now. The message has been very consistent. President Trump, however, has been a little bit all over the map.
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