florida governor ron desantis in iowa yes today, not mentioning donald trump by name, but still taking a few swipes at him. i think he was. we will show you what else he had to say about the front runner in the race for the republican nomination. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, may 31st. good to have your with us, along with joe, willie, and me. member of the new york times let s show jonathan really quick. okay, go, go. okay. we done this before. can we stop for a second? tj, i am scratching my face. you want to go to me now? and also, this historic day leave him alone. let s do jenna. hold on. cover me for a second, tj. okay. oh, we ve got jen. see, she can t even mess up! now now. good morning. okay. is my collar straight? thank you. let s actually get to work. hold on. when we do get to work, it s going to be a lot of fun, because i m going to get the yankees in a second, but these republicans will donald trump
Is now. i mean, desantis what does he need to do here? to try to reverse that? part of that is going to have to be taking on trump more directly than we just saw. just watching him campaign out there, he s an extremely awkward campaigner so far. to your point, he could get better. he needs to either get a lot better really quickly, or, you know, alternatively, he can kind of stay away from those big rallies that donald trump is, you know, that is his signature. maybe desantis cannot go head- to-head with donald trump kind of holding court. that is donald trump s specialty. so far, i don t see how he s going to compete against trump on that level. desantis seems to be best at a quick jab and retreating, coming out with some extreme policy that the base may like, like the six week abortion ban, then kind of retreating. but the more he s in front of