crime invests our cities and the federal government makes it harder for families to make ends meet and the president flounders. decline is a choice. success is attainable and freedom is worth fighting for. harris: desantis later joined fox news host trey gowdy for his first interview as the presidential candidate. he slapped the administration and gave president biden a nickname. liftless bethel. i think the country is going in the wrong direction. if we have another four years of the biden administration i think some of the damage will be irreversible. why me? we ve had unprecedented policy success. you have to be able to win and then when you get in office you have to be able to deliver results. and i think we ve been able to do both of those as good or better than anybody in the country. harris: so far desantis is the biggest name to take on former president trump, who has a commanding lead over the entire gop field in the latest fox polling. the declared seven g.o.p
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
trump stronger in the early primary goals. mika, it is interesting to see how murdoch-owned media is framing this. the new york post says, he s off and running, ron is ready to rumble, finally a trump alternative. sidebar says, musk muffs launch. this is an elon musk problem. they made a choice to an extent there. in the wall street journal, the ron desantis challenge. this is the board writing in part, this, the rap against mr. desantis is that he is a cultural brawler more than a likable unifier. there s truth to this. he s no backslapper, and he d benefit from even a little of ronald reagan s self-deprecating humor. the best candidates for president campaign with some poetry and optimism as well as policy grit and personal toughness. it s a balance, and from
like this one. i would embrace proposals like paul ryan offered. i m not a candidate. james clyburn admitted this week the reason the democrats moved south carolina to the front of the democratic primary calendar is to avoid embarrassment next year. so far this campaign at least in the first month president biden has been avoiding them and every other early state. harris. harris: thank you very much. the wall street journal editorial board lays out the florida governor s advantages but highlights the challenges. a cultural brawler more than a likable unifier. there is truth to this. he is no back slapper and he would benefit from a little of ronald reagan self-deprecating