Scott Jennings: ‘Would’ve Been a Homerun’ if Biden Said He Had Some Responsibility on Rhetoric Against Trump

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JENNINGS: "Yeah, I think he got the platitudes right. Here‘s where I thought it was lacking. He said the political rhetoric has gotten too hot and we‘ve got to cool it down. And what I wanted him to say was, 'And you know that means me too.' 'Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He‘s a threat to our freedom. He‘s threat to our democracy. He is literally — literally a threat to everything America stands for.' And a few days later, 'It‘s time to put Donald Trump in the bullseye.' Now, now if, if the president of the United States had said, 'I bear some responsibility here and I‘m going to do my part,' this would have been a homerun. He didn‘t do that. Instead, he spread it all around, which I guess is as far as he‘s willing to go. But let me tell you how Republicans are going to take that. They‘re going to take that as a president who has repeatedly said, 'I want to heal the soul of the nation and the buck stops here,' but with an unwillingness to acknowledge some of the things that he has said to bring us to a place that he says we're in. So I‘m — I‘m not — look. let me stipulate two things. I‘m praying for Joe Biden. I have been since the debate. We gotta do better. And I‘m praying for this country because what happened to Donald Trump was an assault on our democracy. We should all be mad as Americans because that‘s what happened. But I need the president to take some responsibility."