CNN’s Dana Bash Busts Out Laughing When Reporter Calls Biden Strategy ‘A Noun And A Verb And January 6’
CNN anchor Dana Bash cracked up when CNN senior political analyst Nia-Malika Henderson referred to President Joe Biden’s campaign strategy as “A noun and a verb and January 6th.”
In 2007, Biden zinged Rudy Giuliani during a debate by saying “There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.”
On Wednesday afternoon’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics, Henderson got a huge laugh from Bash by turning that quip around on the Biden campaign’s focus on Trump as a threat to democracy because of his attempted insurrection:
DANA BASH: Something that caught the eye of the team and it’s really, really interesting. This is from that Des Moines Register poll that came over, came out over the weekend before the Iowa caucuses. And it shows that, this is a likely caucus goers, 11% said that they would still ultimately vote for Joe Biden.
Now, this is not the entrance poll. It was a traditional poll, but it was pretty dead on at the end of the day.
NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON: Yeah, listen, I mean, there wasn’t all good news out of Iowa for Donald Trump. You can see there’s some softness in terms of his support. You see, those folks are saying that they are ultimately going to vote for Biden. Maybe they voted for Haley in in the contest.
But yeah, I mean, he is a wounded candidate, I think, in so many ways. And I think if you’re Biden, you can look at what Chris Christie said, those comments, that is an ad in and of itself, the idea that this is a battle for the soul of America, something that Joe Biden said back in 2020.
So, listen, you know, I think this argument around democracy is a, it’s an argument they made recently. It’s an argument they made going into 2022.
They do have to figure out a way to make it fresher. Right? Because it can’t just be a noun and a verb and January 6th, right?
DANA BASH: (LAUGHS).
NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON: It’s got to be much broader than that. And they’re clearly trying to connect it to day to day issue.
LAURA BARRON LOPEZ: That 11% though. Um, I, you know, I’ve talked to Republicans that falling into that 11% that say that because of January 6th, they became independents or because of January.
DANA BASH: That’s true.
LAURA BARRON LOPEZ: Go back to the party. So that’s what the campaign is, is looking at 10s.
ISAAC AMSDORF: Well, and I’m thinking back to it, I think we’re in the same caucus location. Yeah. Uh, and it was in the suburbs in Clive, and Trump was a distant third there he was. We don’t want to overinterpret one data point, but if Trump isn’t going to win Republicans like that in other places besides Iowa, that could be an issue in November.
DANA BASH: And by the way, noun, verb, January 6th, if you know, you know, she was referring to Rudy Giuliani back in the day. Noun, verb, 9/11. Okay, Google it.
Watch above via CNN’s Inside Politics.
