before you get the burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race. as we said, the livestream event on twitter got off to a rocky start, crashing several times with the announcement delayed by the more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here, i think we are kind of melting the servers. let s see, so yeah. just to simplify. let s see. crashing, huh? i think we re back online here. great. all right. well, it s certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this stark announcement. oh, the technical troubles drew mockery on social media. president joe biden posted a link to his donation page, writing simply, this link works. and former president donald trump had a series of posts on truth social, calling the announcement fatal and a disaster. he also had one strange post where he wrote, quote, rob, my
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
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 trump by 31 points. he trailed by 14 points in march. and a new emerson college of iowa republicans out just this morning has trump ahead of desantis 62% to 20%. let s bring in former chair of the new hampshire republican party. she knows a thing or two about this. jennifer horn. good morning. ron desantis has a long way to go. what do you make of this botched rollout and the impact in the long run? well, there s no question that this was there s nothing good. you know, he went on fox and
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