Mika Brzezinski: If Biden Leaves the Race, Dems Will Regret It

SCARBOROUGH: “The biggest issue, immediate issue, is money. The donors have stopped giving money, and it’s almost completely ground down to a halt. The story of Jeffrey Katzenberg telling President Biden this got eclipsed from the Covid diagnosis. So, that is a problem. I will say also, you got a lot of information yesterday, there was a lot of information, a lot off the record conversations, a lot of plans being made about President Biden moving toward getting out of the race this weekend, that stopped when there was some very specific reporting later in the afternoon. Mark Halperin being very specific on some reporting that other reporters at newspapers and networks had parts of that reporting, but not all of it together. I think at that point is when we started to see the campaign pushing back, because what people close to Joe Biden have said all along is, ‘He’s a man of great pride. He can be stubborn and tough. Don’t back him into the corner. If he’s going to do this, let him do it his way, on his time frame.’ And when all of these reports started coming out, that’s when the campaign started pushing back. I think part of that is giving him the space to make this decision, to finish making this decision with his family this weekend.”
BRZEZINSKI: “He’s also a man of faith and a man of tremendous historic accomplishment. And, look, it’s impossible to ignore where this is going and exactly what started it. I’m not unaware of that. At the same time, I still believe that you don’t know what you have until it’s gone, and that there will be that feeling at some point.”
SCARBOROUGH: “You think there’ll be — when he — if he leaves the race, you think Democrats will regret it?”
BRZEZINSKI: “I do.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah.”
BRZEZINSKI: “I do. Because among many reasons, which I’ve already stated, I won’t say it again, don’t worry, but None of these are backed by a strong alternative, an alternative that has beat Trump before, an alternative that is vetted, an alternative that is tested. So that’s a lot to throw away.”