superpower politically has always been underestimated. i remember writing a column in the washington post, everyone thought he was finished after iowa and new hampshire, and i said no matter what happens, i m still proud of joe biden. and he s always been underestimated. he was mocked and ridiculed on twitter going into the 2020 campaign. there were people all around barack obama that didn t want him on and they would talk to any reporter off the record they could talking about how he wasn t up to the challenge. you of course heard a lot of the same talk from the democratic party going into the midterms, again, saying that this guy was taking the democratic party down and he needed to quit. once again, brand up, he always he always beats expectations. democrats never and didn t in the midterms know what they had in joe biden. they had someone who is a
i mean, you had a president who was incompetent and duplicitous. you had a white house chief of staff, mark meadows, who feels more than incompetent and more than duplicitous. coming up, donny deutsch joins us with a special edition of brand up, brand down. happy 50th anniversary, morning joe. guys, i love you so much. i mean, i spend my mornings i start out at 4:00. i m up before jonathan. and then joe, mika, willie, you guys have me at the table and on zoom. you supported our foundation over the years, our animal rescue, the work we did during covid, what we do to keep people fed and improve school food, but what i love most about it is whether i m there or on zoom, everyone who watches you always feels a part of the conversation and at the table with you. you do great political content that is thoughtful, it is filled
why? gallup came out and asked people to identify themselves. more people identify themselves as depths than republicans or democrats. the independents are who came to bear in the last election. the independents, i believe more than any other group, saved our democracy. they came up and spoke. i think independent as a brand is going to continue to grow. e v yes, we are a two-party system, but most people when you look at their wardrobe of attributes, they don t line up completely we they are party. i think independent will be a bigger brand moving forward. republicans blew what should have been a layup of midterm election season, giving them a brand down. yeah. you know, joe, you can t talk about it enough. what a losing strategy. the party of grievance, the party of nothing. even after all of these losses, what do they come forward with? hunter biden s laptop. the republicans are lost. they can t get up. and the problem they have going forward is donald trump, although we see hi
donny deutsch, thank you so much. that does it for brand up, brand down for the year. brand up, brand down, big brand up. i like it. as i said, it s the kids, once again i don t know why it s scandinavians but a little scandinavian boy, i tell this story, bjorn and his family stopped me on the street and said thank you, mr. deutsch, and i said, bjorn, this is why we do it. sweet, sweet. sweep one away. leapt me know if he s wearing jeans and clogs. jeans and a nice women s boot to go with it. donny deutsch. you just ruined it for me. so disturbing. just ruined it for me. that s so brand down. thank you so much, buddy. or . that s so brand down thank you so much, buddy.
desantis, the people are figuring it up. showing up in the polls. current president, brand up you say. i ve always been critical of him saying he doesn t have his mojo and what not. but when you look at the pure blocking attack, the legislative victories, whether it s the chips, whether it s manufacturing, whether it s gun control, climate, build back better, the inflation act, no president has gotten more done in his first term probably since fdr, and you also see what happened in the midterm elections in terms of his coat tails or the coattails of donald trump how democrats have performed. under the brand of quiet competency, of sanity, of stability, you each got to give him a major brand up, i don t care where you re coming from. mika, what s so fascinating is and we see this once in a while, but joe biden s