at every single stop now, reporters are looking, is he interacting with the crowd? is he take shaking hands, tae staying long enough? if you re advanced staff, you have to stay at least an extra 30 minutes to show, hey, he likes people. i saw tweets, what pizza is he having? is he talking to voters? do we have a timetable as to when other candidates will jump in? rumors about tim scott, mike pence and others. i think tim scott will come in. may 22nd is the date where they re circling. you ll see his super pac get bolstered. mike pence also in the next month. those are the two main candidates. national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson covering a lot of ground. thank you for being here. thank you for all of you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent year. the time for excuses is over. if we get distracted, focus the election on
midwest. i started watching more what they did during this legislative session. i thought, man, they ve done an awful lot. maybe it s that florida is the iowa of the southeast. i don t know. florida ron desantis laying it on thick with praise for iowa during a barnstorm trip over the weekend as he takes advantage of donald trump canceling a campaign event in that state, and that comes as there s new polling in several states with hypothetical matchups between president joe biden, trump, and desantis. we ll take a look at the latest numbers. we ll also have an update on the debt ceiling negotiations as the clock is ticking before president biden takes a trip to january for the g7 summit. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. the two front-runners for the 2024 republican nomination were both expected to be in iowa over the weekend, but concerns about extreme weather kept
Officers on u. S. Marshals task force were killed while serving a warrant. Five others were hurt during the shootout. All the details coming up. But, first. Signs of democrat panic, thats the focus of tonights angle [explosion] [shouting] laura bidenomics is sinking its namesake. When you ask how is the economy going today, whats your rating of it, 30 . 30 of americans say its good. 70 of americans say its poor. The economy is overwhelmingly the most important issue for voters. The economy is still front and center for people. Laura 70 of those surveyed say the economy is poor. You got to wonder who the heck are the 30 think its good . Are there that many billionaires out there . Now well dig into a lot of this tonight. But, these putrid economic numbers one indicator among many, pointing to a possible trump win in november and it has the white house, the democrats, and the regime media in a full blown panic. Now, this know if the election were covered fairly, if biden were forced to d
iowa. helped trump wasn t there. give us a sense as to where you think things stand for the florida governor, who may be a couple weeks from announcing a run. he wanted to do this legislative session where he signed a bunch of bills, conservative priorities. i think his team saw this as a way to contrast himself with donald trump. look, i m getting stuff done. what actually happened, he was half in as a candidate, half out, and that enabled donald trump to pummel him day after day without really an infrastructure to beat back. going to iowa, having this super pac go out and defend him on the airwaves and online, you re seeing them steady ship a little bit. with all the races, his expectations are much lower than they were six months. i bet there s going to be a comeback narrative in two, three weeks. the other interesting thing i d point out is there is this narrative that desantis is awkward.
publicly. do you think he understands the trouble he s in? in 2016 this were moments that he knew he was under the gun and he had to reform. at this point he still believes in himself, he believes that are recreating the comeback narrative, he believes the economy is booming and that will be his vehicle to get re-elected. i think there s a sense he knows it will be close but he can do it. you just talked about a booming economy. can you believe any president have these numbers with the unemployment at 6.6% in the nine-year obama recovery? no, it s unprecedented with kind of economy. the question that i have has he not been shown those numbers before by his own staff? did they come as a surprise to him? that s a question for all of us. but as part of his reaction, his own staff won t show him the pad news. what you saw in the reaction to the nbc report is this ferocious