danger to the country given what the country saw on january 6th and the ongoing threat to democracy. thank you. that does it for us. this edition of andrea mitchell reports . and now chris jansing reports. hello. i m chris jansing in new york city. tallahassee, we have a problem. ron desantis glitchy campaign launch sparked gleeful attacks on his opponents. will it also fuel new questions about donors? about whether the governor is ready for a political fight? and how does his team put their rough start in the rear view mirror? plus, the house gop ditching d.c. without avoiding an economic catastrophe. touting progress but making no promise about where things go from here. and breaking news, an 18-year sentence for oath keeper responder stewart rhodes. we start with ron desantis. his newly minted presidential campaign forced into damage control on day one after his decision to announce live on twitter got maybe the worst reviews for a presidential kickoff in rec
sorry about that. we ve got so many people here, that i think we are kind of melting the servers. answering messages begin coming in over the station s teletype. ron desanctimonious needs a personally transplant, and those are not yet available. killed at $14 million, the station emboies the last word in radio transmission. let s see. crashing, huh? wow. ah. okay, you have to give a hat tip to dan and the gang for putting that together. good job. well. that was awkward. welcome to morning joe. that was our producers putting together their view of his failure to launch, ron desantis. on twitter. we can obviously talk about this an awful lot. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 25th. willie, the thing is, we re in the age of twitter. we re in the age of social media. everybody is going to freak out at that exact moment, and they certainly did. there was a meltdown over the meltdown. it was bad. i mean, it was bad on so
here, again, this could all be forgotten in a week or two. that said, unfortunately, too often, it foreshadows either problems or strengths in the campaign to follow. i think you want to launch by giving the optics of your message and why you re running. i launched by having a rally and having a lot of the people that mattered to the people that i was hoping would vote for me standing there with me. that was the message i wanted to give. i think those that you mentioned did similar launches. i think that not only was this a mess-up, the thing we have to keep in mind is desantis is challenging trump, who will never let us forget that he messed up the launch. so we can say for anyone else, it s one day, tomorrow it ll be something else. every chance trump gets, he s going to say, how can this man
massive hit. again, just part of the culture you and i grew up in. yeah. withwe talked about 84 with the collabs. then we don t need another hero in 1985. thunder dome was the movie of the summer of 1985. she was in it. she had a number one hit. she may have won a grammy for that performance. she was, again, it kept rolling. she came out of the cannon in 84 and had a big second half of the 80s, too, and that was part of it. so cool. coming up, the start of last night s much-anticipated twitter event in which ron desantis was set to announce his presidential bid. it didn t really go as planned. we ll have more on the florida governor s glitchy campaign
run the economy when he can t run a launch? how can this man handle international global affairs when he can t handle a launch? i mean, if you were running against candidates that would move on, i would say, don t worry about it, governor desantis. but you re running against donald trump. he won t ever let you forget it. more importantly, he will never let us forget it. that s how trump is. you just served him a softball, and he is going to keep hitting that ball over the fence every chance he can. mm-hmm. recent polls taken before his announcement yesterday have ron desantis significantly behind donald trump in the republican primary. in the latest cnn national survey conducted last week, the florida governor trails trump by 27 points among registered republican and republican-leaning independent voters. in a march poll, the deficit for desantis was just four points. the latest quinnipiac national survey has desantis trailing