Mark McKinnon: ‘Any Democrat with a Pulse’ Is Better than Biden

McKINNON: “...with Donald Trump toe-to-toe, and guess what, he couldn’t do it. He didn’t do it, he can’t do it. People tuned in to see if he really looked 80. He looked 90. And that‘s not going to get any better between now and November. And if he doesn‘t withdraw and if they don‘t change the ticket, Democrats will lose.”
COATES: “You know, there has been a lot of focus, as we‘ve been talking, about President Joe Biden. Politics, as you know, can be kind of a feeding frenzy, and the coming days could bring even more bad polls and possibly even indication that it could impact down-ballot races and could be at risk. But also there are many who are looking at this and saying, ‘Look, Joe Biden may have had a bad performance. Donald Trump wasn‘t great.’ Do you think that the form and substance is going to even out for the American people and public?”
McKINNON: “It doesn‘t matter. The issue for anybody who cares about this country, who thinks that Donald Trump is a true threat to democracy, and I‘m one of them, knows that Joe Biden is not the best candidate to put up against Trump because Trump will win. So the question is, what do you do?”
COATES: “So who is now?”
McKINNON: “Anybody with a pulse, any Democrat with a pulse. Put up anybody, they will do better job than Joe Biden will. I mean, the fact is that it wasn‘t just one night. He‘s had lots of bad nights. And we know that, and there‘s gonna be more between now and November. And as soon as one of those bad night‘s happens, everybody is going to go crazy and say, ‘See, he‘s got cognitive decline.’ I‘m 70, I‘m not as good as I was with 60. You can‘t be 66 in America and be a park ranger, but you can run for president if you‘re 80.”
COATES: “Do you want to be a park ranger, Mark McKinnon?”
McKINNON: “I do. That’s why I looked it up. But I can’t, I’m too old.”
COATES: “I mean, the hat, I always had questions about it, I didn‘t want to go there, but you know what, you opened the door. Now there‘s now the questions are resolved. Mark McKinnon — shout-out to all the park rangers out there, by the way — thank you so much.”