loser, still losing, as the wall street journal says, still losing to the least popular president in modern polling history, i m not sure that somebody that has that massive loss hanging over him every day is going to be able to help the republican party. just my opinion. lost the popular vote twice. impeached twice. one-term president. you re exactly right, joe, those candidates last time around in georgia would have loved to have talked about the economy and their own campaigns rather than answering for everything donald trump did. glenn youngkin, who won in virginia, was able to kind of keep donald trump at arm s length and talk about issues in his state. he won. candidates don t want to have to talk about the 2020 presidential election. we ll see if he comes back on the scene. today, on capitol hill, there will be more conversation about what he did leading up to the attack on january 6th. today will be the seventh hearing of that committee.
despite that fact, you have americans not only saying in these head-to-head matchups, but also saying in these senate races in 22, whether you re looking at ohio or looking at pennsylvania, and some of them in georgia, they re like, we don t want the crack pot. we don t want the crack pot in our state. we may agree with them on policies. maybe we think the democrats are too progressive. but we just can t have a weirdo representing us in washington, d.c. i think, i don t know, maybe republicans have finally pushed the envelope too much with some of these insurrectionists and freaks. i think rick james did a song about some of the freaks. you made me think about that when you said that about le pen. but the reality of it is, joe, for me, an interesting thing is beginning to happen, which i was curious about at the beginning of the summer. which now seem to bear out.
nomination. three secret offspring didn t tackle walker more than it did when he was barrelling down the field at the university of georgia. even as senator, walker seems to believe he knows everything about everything, while his words suggest he knows nothing about anything at all. it truly is stunning. yeah. i ve seen conservatives actually say that america is in a very, very dire state when, especially the republican party, when the party can nominate somebody like this to represent them in the senate. it is unbelievable, joe. it is absolutely unbelievable. but this is a major state, this is georgia. in many ways, ground zero for american politics these days. look, if republicans nominate a normal, you know, sensible republican candidate for senate, they have a really good chance of taking the seat away from
favor republicans right now. why is the gop concerned about the senate? and why is joe biden, with record low ratings, still beating donald trump in a hypothetical rematch. interesting dynamic happening in the polls. willie, joe, and me, we welcome you to morning joe. good morning. it is thursday, july 12th. we have the former aide tuesday. i apologize. guys, i don t know what day of the week it is, but it is only tuesday. doesn t really matter. one in five chance of getting it right. willie, they re all kind of the same. they re all kind of the same. doesn t matter. one day i ll get it right. you guys are sweet. former aide to the george w. bush white house elise jordan. former chair of the republican committee, michael steele is here. and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson joins us this morning. willie, to set this up, on our show yesterday which, of course, was wednesday. shut up. perhaps it ll be next friday.
is up and tweeting this morning and we know, it s anyone s guess what he s writing. sounds like a good time to roll out morning joe s trump twitter bingo. we ll explain that. we re back in three minutes.