find enough votes for him to win the state in 2020. turns out, trump may have tried to pressure the governor of arizona, as well. plus, florida governor and 2024 candidate ron desantis facing new pushback after his campaign released a video mocking donald trump s past support for lgbtq issues. what transportation secretary pete buttigieg had to say about that. also this morning, what we re learning about a mass shooting in baltimore yesterday that left two people dead and more than two dozen injured. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, july 3rd. i m jonathan lemire. alongside the bbc s katty kay. joe, mika and willie all have the morning off. we are glad you re starting your way with us. with us, we have former white house director of communications to president obama, jen palmieri. the president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politics nation, the reverend al sharpton. and white house editor for politico, sam stein. good morn
times, and maybe something we underestimated about trump in 2016, all those years in entertainment served him incredibly well. christie has some of the combative fight in him, and this seems to be an election about fight as much as conservatism. perhaps if you fight for people, that s what voters want. i don t think it gets christie much above he polled at 5% recently. he needs to be at 49% to take on trump, but what does it do to the other candidates in the field? what is the ripple effect of what christie is doing on the other candidates? yeah, well, that s the hope, right, is that remember rocky 4, there is the great scene when the russian has been cut, finally cut, and it s a bad cut! nobody thinks that donald trump donald trump has this image that he is magical and that he can t be beaten. so if someone finally ever does land a glove on him, and i ve