MSNBC's Joy Reid suggests GOP has 'hatred' for Biden because he was VP to 'the Black president'

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In media news today, a producer exits Canada’s public broadcaster over its ‘radical political agenda,’ Jen Psaki denies the White House has ‘lost control’ of COVID, and an MSNBC anchor says his family was denied entry into an NYC restaurant because his 4-year-old daughter was unvaccinated.

MSNBC host Joy Reid suggested that Republicans have deep “hatred” for President Biden for his connection to the first Black president of the United States.

Ahead of Biden’s address commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill, Reid expressed concern over “whether or not he actually can change” what she believes is the ongoing threat to democracy.

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“Because unbelievably, he has become for Republicans as much of a sort of figure of hatred, a hate object, as President Obama was. You know, the Black president. Like, he was his vice president, maybe that’s part of it. I don’t know what it is,” Reid told a panel on Wednesday.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 19: In this screengrab, Joy Reid speaks at the 33rd Gloria Awards: A Salute to Women of Vision – VIRTUAL EVENT on May 19, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images Ms. Foundation for Women)
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“But this is the like the most sort of norm, core Democrat ever. He’s a moderate, you know, sort of ordinary Democrat. There’s nothing outrageous about him, but they have cast him as some sort of demonic character,” Reid added.

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The “ReidOut” host later asked MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill if there was a way for Biden to “get people in this Republican cult to even listen” to him.