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
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
desantis also spun the technical difficulties as excitement for his campaign. that was during a fox interview last night. we had a huge audience. it was the biggest they d ever had. it did break the twitter space, and so we re really excited with the enthusiasm. ultimately, it s about the future of our country. meanwhile, desantis spokesperson tweeted the campaign raised a million dollars online in one hour. a lot adviser claimed more than 700,000 people joined the virtual rollout. the florida governor enters the race with a cash advantage. his state re-election account had $80 million left over from his gubernatorial race. didn t need it, won by 19 points. a super pac for desantis reportedly raised $33 million. that official number won t be made public until july. that may be the point, jen, for the campaign.
they won t fear up until we come with rifles in our hands. rhodes wrote a message ahead of january 6th, saying after the attack, a recording was played in court during his trial when he said, i m a political prisoner, trump is saying he s a political prisoner, desantis is saying, oh, it s the fbi and doj s fault. don t you understand, that s their fault. no, it s stewart rhodes fault. after january 6th, after the cops had the hell beaten out of them by american flags, he said his only regret was, we should have brought rifles. let me tell you something, about 400 rioters have already received sentences for their crimes, for their violent, vile acts committed on january 6th. their anti-american, treasonous acts.
tried to spin it, oh, yeah, we broke the internet. that s not what happened, unfortunately, last night. it is possible that in a few months, as you look back, it might be we learn the internet broke ron desantis. it created a moment for donald trump, but equally important to that, it also when you look at the poll numbers and the degree to which desantis is his numbers are declining, it s probably undermined the confidence of a lot of the primary voters that he really desperately needs right now. there was a hashtag going last night, d-e aster. ron desater. ahead on morning joe, the marine veteran charged with manslaughter after a fatal choke hold on a new york city subway argues it has nothing to do with race. we ll take a look at that and why he is suggesting he d do it again. you re watching morning joe. we will be right back.