the whole campaign and not have to answer tough questions, well, then we may be in danger of seeing a democrat sweep in 2024. steve: all right. good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 here in new york city and we start this wednesday morning with the race for the white house. the republican presidential primary heating up with former president donald trump expected to arrive in iowa today. ainsley: yeah. that s right. his visit to the hawkeye state comes just a day after florida s governor ron desantis kicked off his great american comeback tour. brian: right. here we go. lucas tomlinson joins us now to set the table. lucas? good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. first visit to iowa as a presidential candidate. florida governor ron desantis vowed to fix the border once and for all. i m frustrated on things like the border because i have been listening to these politicians talk about securing the border for years and years and years. i could tell you if i m president, th
sorry about that. we ve got so many people here, that i think we are kind of melting the servers. answering messages begin coming in over the station s teletype. ron desanctimonious needs a personally transplant, and those are not yet available. killed at $14 million, the station emboies the last word in radio transmission. let s see. crashing, huh? wow. ah. okay, you have to give a hat tip to dan and the gang for putting that together. good job. well. that was awkward. welcome to morning joe. that was our producers putting together their view of his failure to launch, ron desantis. on twitter. we can obviously talk about this an awful lot. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 25th. willie, the thing is, we re in the age of twitter. we re in the age of social media. everybody is going to freak out at that exact moment, and they certainly did. there was a meltdown over the meltdown. it was bad. i mean, it was bad on so
january 6 riot and later in the day followed that up with the speech vilifying the gop on the money issues. speaker of the house went to wall street last week. used cuts in important programs, he and his maga republican colleague, they would rather see kids and seniors struggle to eat what they need. people on medicaid lose their healthcare. veterans lose access to doctors visits and cut subsidies to big oil that made $200 billion, and big pharma and the wealthiest corporations. did you hear anything about an idea that he might take to the table on the debt limit or budget and counter balance what republicans are asking for, no. just pounced on them and pounded. even members of his own political party now are not eager for another four years of biden. poll after poll showing more than half of people who say they vote democrat seem to be what i call abb, anybody but biden. the white house quite defensive about those polls, and don t dare touch the glaring fact he s the old
desantis to get home to florida and do his job. he took aim touring a campaign stop in west palm beach, florida, after skipping events in iowa last week. desantis trails trump in the polls and is laying off campaign staffers as hi fundraising close. of course, he is hoping to close the gap with trump and win the nomination. cnn national correspondent kristen holmes has the latest from the campaign trail. reporter: good morning. well, former president trump spoke for nearly two hours to a packed house at that turning point event. this of course coming after he missed that, quote, unquote, cattle cow in iowa on friday. now, despite the fact that several of his opponents called him out for that, he actually called out some of his 2024 republican hopeful opponents for not being at this event, particularly, of course, ron desantis. take a listen to what he had so say. a gentleman named ron desanctimonious at 14%. he is at 14%.
. welcome back. turning to the 2024 presidential race, donald trump slamming florida go governor ron desantis tell him to get home and to his job. taking him during a campaign stop in west palm beach, florida, after skipping events in iowa last week. desantis trails trump in the polls and laying off campaign staffers as his fundraising slows. he is hoping to close the gap with trump and win the nomination. kristen holmes has the latest from the campaign trail. reporter: good morning. well, former president trump spoke for nearly two hours to a packed house at that turning point event coming after he missed that, quote, unquote, cattle cow in iowa on friday. despite missing that event, despite the fact that several of his opponents called him out for that, he actually called out some of his 2024 republican hopeful opponents for not being at this event, particularly, of course, ron desantis. take a listen to what he had to say. a gentleman named ron