‘Unequivocally!’ MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend Says Biden ‘Is Great Mentally’ Unlike Trump

MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend said on Sunday that President Joe Biden “is great mentally” and that President-elect Donald Trump is not.

During a Sunday morning panel on Meet The Press, Sanders-Townsend said Biden can “at least put a sentence together” while Trump is the one she’s concerned about regarding mental acuity and fitness.

Throughout the 2024 election, Biden was criticized by Democrats and Republicans for running for a second-term due to concerns regarding his age and mental fitness. Following a disastrous debate performance against Trump, Biden dropped out of the race nearly a month later after facing pressure from Democrats, with Vice President Kamala Harris unsuccessfully running in his place.

But even after that internal pressure and the public display, Sanders-Townsend insisted Sunday that, on the question of whether Biden is “all the way there” the answer is “unequivocally yes!”

She added that he is doing the job, and his mental acuity “is there,” saying she expects Biden wants to know why people who know him aren’t defending him more on the characterizations of his intellectual capacity.

Politico’s Jonathan Martin responded to Sanders-Townsend’s remarks by noting Biden “is not worth defending” regarding accusations about his mental fitness. Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Mike Pence, agreed with Martin’s comments.

SANDERS-TOWNSEND: I was very surprised when you asked the question about mental acuity he didn’t more forcefully push back. The question on the table is: Is the president all the way there? And the answer is: unequivocally yes!

Now, people can say that you feel as though President Biden might be a little too old to do the job. But he is doing the job, and his mental acuity is there.

So I think that there’s a conflation of two things here. It’s his mental capacity, and serving another four years as old as he is. But those are two separate things in my opinion. And look, these people, they have known Joe Biden their entire political lives. I know Joe Biden is like, ‘Can y’all just please defend me a little more?’

MARTIN: Well, it’s not worth defending him, though, because at every turn the last year and a half, he has taken the path of the most indulgent turn for himself out than the good of the party by running again, by pardoning his son, and now, frankly, by some of these choices for the Medal of Freedom, going to Rome for one last trip. He’s not exiting in a way that I think reflects well on his party. And Democrats are deeply, deeply unhappy about it. And they should be frankly.

SHORT: It hurt Democrats in November to try to tell the American people something they could see with their own eyes wasn’t true.

SANDERS-TOWNSED: But it’s not true that the president doesn’t have the mental acuity.

SHORT: Of course it is Symone! The American people saw that for themselves.

SANDERS-TOWNSEND: What are you saying? He can at least put a sentence together…the president-elect is the one I’m concerned about.

Watch the clip above via NBC News.