MSNBC's Ruhle Worries Biden's Decency Loses to Trump's Stock Market Recovery
Alex Christy
On her Wednesday show, MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle lamented to Delaware Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester that people will still vote for President Trump despite him being a liar and Joe Biden being a much more decent person.
Ruhle began by asking Blunt Rochester if the Democrats' communication strategy is effective. "Many of the speakers last night focused on Joe Biden as a good, humble and decent man. Does that kind of thing get people excited to go to the polls?" Rochester talked about how the Bidens are "humble public servants," but Ruhle worried out loud that in the privacy of the polls, greedhead voters will stick with Trump now that the stock market is recovering.
STEPHANIE RUHLE: You'll be hard-pressed to find almost anybody who will argue that president Trump is a more decent human being than Joe Biden, but here is the thing, people vote in private and there are folks out there who will forgive President Trump for almost anything because the stock market is doing so well. Just yesterday the S&P 500 hit a record high. Trump is going to argue that all of those gains will be lost without him. We know that is not true, but how do you convince Americans to make a change and potentially risk those economic gains?
In addition to confusing her own economic predictions with objective truth, Ruhle made it seem as if Biden's supporters won't forgive him "for almost anything" because he's not Trump.
As for Blunt Rochester answer, she gave the standard Democratic line about government benefits matter more than anything: "While the S&P might do well and some individuals who have a lot of resources might do well, the average person is saying, are you fighting for me to make sure I have that expanded unemployment insurance, or those SNAP benefits while I'm going through this economic hardship?"
This segment was sponsored by Safelite.
Here is a transcript for the August 19 show:
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