so what is this world going to look like and how are they going to contrast themselves with the former president? i ve been out on the campaign trail and these folks have struggled to find their footing without alien ating the base. some indirect attacks, subtle jabs, tonight they ll have to face that head-on, you better bet they re going to get some very direct questions and right now they re all huddled in the prep right now, figuring out how they re going to handle this and try to crawl out from under that shadow, willie. we ll be watching. darsha thanks so much. the dunk contests in the late 80s where michael jordon wasn t there i like spud webb. spud webb finally makes it to morning joe. took 16 years. who has the most to lose tonight
has. i think so. and rev, again, let me keep saying it, just to keep reminding people that with gravity returning, as gravity has been returning, and bad acts come back and legally slap the bad actors in the face, we ve seen it time and again, in this case, all this talk about donald trump and the mugshot, and oh, we re going on sell the mugshot and we re going to raise money off of the mugshot, i don t mean to second guess donald trump s sort of gut instincts in politics, he s revving up a base that will be shrinking and with can we show the mugshot of john eastman who just that s what the lies lead you, this is where donald trump takes
released the individual, the audio yesterday of him saying we just need to ask questions. like, 9/11. how many federal agents were on those planes? trying to suggest this was a plot by israel to set up saudi arabia, now it s moving to, how many federal agents were actually on those planes and so, the question is, why would somebody who s talented, who can connect, who could see a path forward as an alternative to the general craziness of a segment of the base here, the qanon types, why would he go head-first into that? good to know now. i think it says an awful lot
vivek ramaswamy who s running to the crazy of trump, right, he s taking all the sort of qanon conspiracies he s a little bit addicted to it at this point, every time he says something like this, he gets a bump in the polls, he s doing a little bit better, there are so many people in this contest who are polling in the single digits or even less and here he is he sort of rocketed on these conspiracy theories which i think is a really bad indictment about where the gop base is. i m just curious, are people i ll watch the debate, but i just wonder, it s going to be interesting, too, the tune-in factor. it s our job. these characters aren t so interesting. it s our job to watch, mika. i know. do i have to watch? molly jong-fast, thank you
so, the republicans who aren t donald trump, who are largely polling in the single digits except for desantis who s, you know, stuck at 16%, 17%, 18%, are going to try and get some of oxygen back but you see with this reporting that trump has sort of set this up to get as much oxygen as possible. thursday the debate coverage would drop and that s the day donald trump is going to be on his way to get booked. he ll have this mugshot, very likely he ll use this mugshot for fund-raising. i don t think a mugshot necessarily grows the electorate but i think the base is going to love it and i think he ll take advantage of that. i don t think these people have a chance. i think they re scared, too, to try and think of a non-trumpy gop future, there s just a certain lack of imagination that the rest of the republican field