In his latest column for The Daily Beast titled “Joe Biden’s Grief Is the DNA of His Humanity,” Mike shares a couple of personal stories as examples of how Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden connects with people, especially in times of loss, when the cameras aren’t rolling and reporters aren’t taking notes. “I’ll never forget it for the rest of my life, said Boston father Charlie Kenney about a phone call from VP Biden when Kenney’s only son died suddenly at only 25 years old. “He made me realize, right then, that my son mattered.” Read the full column here.
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ICYMI: Veteran columnist Mike Barnicle joined MSNBC Live With Yasmin Vossoughian to discuss the flurry of campaign activity just days before Election Day 2020 and his latest column for The Daily Beast titled “Joe Biden’s Grief is the DNA of his Humanity.” Says Barnicle: “People want their lives back. They want to be able to think that there’s competence in Washington, there’s competence in dealing with the issues that affect them in their everyday lives. They know there’s not competence when it comes to the single issue that is festering throughout this country, and that is the virus….(President Donald J. Trump) has denied the virus. He has denied the existence, the strength, and the scope of the virus….When it comes to Joe Biden, people look at him and say, ‘Well, you know, he doesn’t excite me like Barack Obama, maybe. Maybe I was a Republican, I’ve never voted for a Democrat. But I need competence in my life. I need someone who can get this job done and someone who understands the concept that all of us understand’—the concept of loss that you just referred to.”
Watch this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and the Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes about how the American sociopolitical landscape has become ever more divided, polarized and toxic under President Donald Trump. “We are about to have another election and Donald Trump again is on the ballot and again millions of Americans will vote for him. So, from your point of view, what does that say about the United States of America today?” Listen to Beddoes’ response here.
“We are on the ballot next Tuesday. America is on the ballot. The idea of what this country is all about: What you think it’s all about, Joe, what I think it’s all about, what people have always felt America was all about—that’s on the ballot,” said Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with host Joe Scarborough about President Donald Trump’s re-election prospects as COVID-19 continues to ravage the country. “What’s going on in America? We’ve got to answer that question. We’ve got to deal with that question.”
“The virus is certainly a huge issue, but Trump is a bigger issue—and the exhaustion factor. People are tired of this. They want their lives back and they want their country back,” said Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about the troubled re-election campaign of President Donald Trump with only days left before Election Night.
“How could you vote for Donald Trump if you see how he behaves, if you see what kind of a human being he has been, how he has reacted to people, and how he has been focusing on cruelty—separating children from their parents,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this conversation with host Mika Brzezinski about who President Donald Trump’s voters are, just more than a week before the presidential election between incumbent Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Watch this Morning Joe conversation with host Joe Scarborough, veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker about a bipartisan plan offered up by a Justice Department official from the George W. Bush Administration and a White House counsel under President Barack Obama for reforming the Department of Justice in an effort to “isolate and insulate” the federal executive department against taint by politics, campaigns and corruption following the era of President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr.
“We live now in an age where on this program and other programs and in print all over America people write newspaper columns and editorials over the year and they say: ‘You know, is this who we really are as Americans?’ Well, it’s not who we really are and what’s going on right now, but it’s who we’re slowly becoming: Loud, and brash, and arrogant, and vituperative, damaging each other, attacking each other. That’s not what people want. People want this country calmed down, and that ad gets to it in a very powerful way,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about a new campaign advertisement, narrated by Sam Elliott for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which premiered during Game 1 of the World Series just two weeks before Election Day. You can see the ad here.
“I would think that on the whole, the series will go to the Dodgers for one reason above all: That is the Dodgers can really hit. The Rays are offensively sometimes challenged, but we’ll see,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle as host Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Claire McCaskill preview the 2020 MLB World Series between the two best teams in baseball: the Tampa Bay Rays and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“There are 220,000 Americans who are dead today – dead – and it’s not because people are tired of the pandemic. People are tired of the incompetence that the pandemic has been met with and the incompetence stems from Donald Trump’s handling of the virus,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during this conversation with host Mika Brzezinski following President Trump’s continued public attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, and the media, amid the coronavirus outbreak that continues to ravage the country just two weeks from the presidential election.
Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and writer/MSNBC political analyst Anand Giridharadas discuss the media ecosystem, and in particular Fox News, and what voters regard as “true, salient facts.” Hear Giridharadas’ estimation that the majority of Trump voters are not living in reality but in a “castle of fantasy.” Watch the conversation here.
“The reality is—we all know what the reality is—Donald Trump can only see himself. He does not see the people in the audience. He does not understand their plight. He does not understand the reality that they could obviously get the virus and be in tremendous physical difficulty,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist about President Donald Trump’s false claims about a “cure” for coronavirus amid the huge gap in care available to the president and everyday Americans who are faced with growing numbers of infections, costly medical bills and rising unemployment. “There’s a huge difference between the two and Donald Trump just doesn’t get that difference.”
Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about how the coronavirus pandemic is at the center of this upcoming presidential election between President Donald J. Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, with record numbers of Americans infected and facing huge COVID health bills at a time when unemployment is on the rise. Americans “live in fear and anxiety of who is coming to help, and thus far, nobody has come to help,” says Barnicle about the Trump Administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S.
ICYMI: Watch this Morning Joe conversation between Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they discuss President Donald Trump’s chances for re-election amid the coronavirus pandemic with less than three weeks to Election Day. “The facts are grim and grizzly: America is number one—ladies and gentlemen—we’re number one in the number of infections from the disease and we’re number one in the number of deaths from the disease thus far. The disease is not going away. The virus is not going away. It’s been handled terribly, incompetent by guess who? The man standing in front of those rallies, Donald J. Trump, and he can’t deal with it…I think he knows he’s losing and you have to be really, really out of it not to know that. So, this is what he’s left with: A pile of delusion, fantasy, and the hope that what he’s looking at out in Johnstown, Pennsylvania…that he can recreate 2016. It doesn’t look like he can,” says Barnicle about President Trump’s re-election chances.
Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle and Kurt Bardella, former House Oversight Committee spokesman, discuss the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Bardella says: “We just saw the desperation of Donald Trump and someone who is trying to lay the groundwork to try to justify why he is probably going to be on the other side of one of the largest electoral lopsided losses in the history of our country.”
ICYMI: Tune in to this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward, author of the new book “Rage,” about whether President Donald J. Trump understands or cares about the needs of everyday Americans and what the next move will be by the Republican Party on the heels of Trump bullying and bulldozing his way through the first presidential debate against Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Fox News. Find out here.
Tune in to this Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and The New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker to discuss Susan Glasser and Baker’s new book, “The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III,” a definitive biography of James A. Baker III, who served as Ronald Reagan’s treasury secretary and George H.W. Bush’s secretary of state. Hear their conversation about James Baker’s own presidential aspirations here.
“Seven hundred and fifty in taxes. Seventy thousand for your hair, Donald? To take care of your hair. These are elements that people talk about. The depth of it: You know he’s a crook. People sort of know that—a lot of people sort of know that. His career as a businessman, that might be revealing to people—that he’s a terrible businessman….It’s going to be a slow impact,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle in a conversation with host Willie Geist about whether President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects will be hurt by the recently published bombshell story from The New York Times that chronicles years of Trump’s tax avoidance and financial difficulties, including that he had paid only $750 in federal income taxes the year he was elected president, and no federal income tax in 10 of the previous 15 years.
“In addition to the 200,000 deaths, there are millions, millions of people today—families today—fractured economically because the United States Congress, specifically the United States Senate, the Republicans in the United States Senate, will not bail them out when they’re drowning economically right in front of them,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this conversation with Willie Geist about the fallout from President Donald Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the U.S. “So, the country has indeed changed and whether it’s unalterably changed, we’re going to find out—but it sure is depressing.”
Tune in for this Morning Joe conversation with veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and actors Robin Wright and Cary Elwes as they discuss the enduring legacy and cultural relevance of the 1987 film “The Princess Bride” directed by Rob Reiner, adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel “The Princess Bride.”
