i ll tell ya, you know, the kids i m so old now but the students are, i mean, it s extraordinary. they re the ones now who are going to go out. they re protecting democracy, american democracy. they re the ones who are the guardians of the rule of law. it s just so inspiring to see them all there. yeah, it was a lot of fun. really, when you think about it. they are the first responders. i think they are going to do extraordinarily well, despite the fact i spoke at their graduation. oh, it was so good. still ahead on morning joe, dnc chair harrison says ron desantis has pushed an extreme agenda, pushing freedoms away from floridians. what the candidacy means for the 2024 race. plus, quote, what josh hawley and the right get wrong about manhood. we ll bring in the author of
when she came back, people are like, she s too old, won t ever be back. in the 80s even, it was an incredibly inspiring thing and set a certain kind of template for the way a lot of women came later in the 80s and then the 90s. white, black, men, women, man, she was just huge and beloved, you know, as beloved as any of these people to today. no one like her in terms of performance ability. i mean, just dynamic. there is no words to describe just the power of her performance. we re going to have much more ahead on the life and legacy of tina turner. we ll turn to politics now. as we said, ron desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race. as we said, the livestream event on twitter got off to kind of a rocky start, crashing several times, with the announcement delayed by more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical
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
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
is going in the wrong direction. if we have another four years of the biden administration, i think some of the damage is going to be irreversible. i think we have an opportunity now like the late 1970s when jimmy carter was president to really move the country in a much stronger direction and really bring a lot of bold leadership to bear. why me? you have to be able to win and then when you get in office, you have to be able to deliver results. i think we ve been able to do both of those as good or better than anybody in the country. dana: team fox coverage karl rove on deck with reaction. let s go to rich edson and an update from washington. the governor made history last night. his opponents have a different take. desantis declared he is running for president in a conversation with elon musk and they joined