haley and desantis did go after each other with haley presenting herself as the candidate of the future. we need a leader that is not looking at four years and eight years. we need a president that is looking at 20 and 30 years. good news, the frontrunner is looking at 30 years. 20 with good behavior. [ applause ] ah-ha. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, january 12th. willie, so much to talk about today. let s see, front page of the papers, daily news, we will not be speaking. not sure where morning joe paper of record is today. i guess because ms. bumiller is here, out of respect, they gave us the new york times. new york times, of course, talking about the missile strike against the houthis. washington post, also, we have the strike as the lead. on the other side, trump s trial. wall street journal, inflation ticking up. yeah, willie, nothing in there also about all the coaches that just sort of yesterday was the harvest, my
i m not going back to that. that is the number one argument. the president himself is fond of saying, don t compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. when the alternative is donald trump, they like their chances. there s polling that suggests a lot of americans don t believe the final two will be biden and trump. it may not be until the spring or summer when americans start paying attention, because many simply are not paying attention. when they do, the biden camp believes even if they re lukewarm on the president, have reservations about his age, whatever it might be, they ll not want to go back to the chaos of donald trump. to pick up on elizabeth s point, because that s something the biden campaign says a lot, people simply haven t heard donald trump in a while. he s become background noise. his reach is so much smaller than it used to be. we can t overlook the fact of the downgrade from the audience he had on twitter to now truth social. no one hears that. thos