MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was quite confused and upset about Wednesday's Democratic presidential debate, raging against 2020 candidates for setting their sights on former President Barack Obama.
Scarborough spoke after a debate featuring former Vice President Joe Biden made up of plenty of criticism of the Obama administration, from his immigration policies to the Affordable Care Act. In the end, the MSNBC host concluded that Obama actually ended up taking more heat than President Trump.
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