CNBC/MSNBC Founder: Joe Biden Isn’t Ready for Prime Time

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ROGERS: “Joe Biden is never going to be Obama or Clinton when it comes to be an order. But when you listen to him on the pandemic, a lot of disconnected phrases, it doesn’t really come together in a very convincing message. Every morning you guys put together and crystallize what that critique of Trump is. It is not hard. And he can do it in an op-ed. But when it comes to social distancing and television and prime time in the spotlight in the campaign, that articulation is going to have to be much clearer than it has been, and I really fear a crisis for the candidate if he cannot come up with a more convincing way and a more eloquent way to put out there exactly what the critique of Trump is during this crisis. It is a problem. The campaign should take the next three weeks of coaching and mock interviews and simulations, whatever they need to do to get him there on this because he can do it. But so far it hasn’t come together, I think in the way he’s going to need to be primetime. And it plays into the Trump critique that he’s been around too long, that he’s confused, that he's old. It’s very easy to defeat that by coming out strong with the kind of articulation I think he’s capable of.”