Anchoring from the Vatican for her Friday show ahead of Pope Francis’s Saturday funeral, MSNBC’s Chris Jansing was not just content to portray Francis as a pope of the people; she had to mix in former President Joe Biden as well by praising his “empathy” and love of Amtrak. The fact that Francis would rebuke Biden for his abortion beliefs, to her, just made their relationship even better.
During her report, Jansing declared, “To understand Biden, those closest to him say you must understand his lifelong connection to his Roman Catholic faith, but also what is perhaps his unlikely connection with Pope Francis.”
MSNBC contributor and National Catholic Reporter Vatican correspondent Christopher White also tried to analogize the two by getting in a subtle dig at President Donald Trump, “These are men that came into office, in a sense, with similar mandates to clean up their own houses. And I think because of that, in a sense, they found one another. They found ways to communicate despite their differences, where they had a sense of mutual respect.”
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