Was political malpractice. in fairness, show, he was down 47 points, trump brought him within two points. he had been hit also, little known fact, his campaign bus had been hit by a meteor the week before, right? right. donald brought back to life. trump did it. it s in the tweet. voters still have something called a bs detector. and when trump is going down to louisiana, by the way, he loves basking before crowds in places where he s popular and he s still popular there. but if he s going to say john bel edwards say radical democrat, voters are going believe that as much as if they were to go into new england and chaul call charlie baker and phil scott the governors in massachusetts and vermont some trump tea party conservatives. voters still make distinctions at this level. the good news for trump this is
Coming from louisiana where they re-elected the only democratic governor skbr governor john bel edwards. either kentucky and louisiana are secretly liberal or president trump is the problem. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s monday, november 18th and the with us we have national contributor mike barnicle, jonathan lemire, and reverend al sharpton. and former chief of staff to the dccc and strategic communications for hillary clinton s presidential campaign, adrienne elrod. and pulitzer prize winning cull lum nist and editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and also david wasserman. a lot of politics going on this morning. we re going to get to another loss for donald trump, but front
Not a blow to his re-election chances in the is an indication that, number one, the limits of his transferability of popularity are still there and, number two, some southern suburbs are now open to voting for the right kind of democrat. particularly those catholic suburbs. obama took 26% of the vote there in 2018. john bel edwards got 50% on saturday night. you bring up a great point. this isn t bad news for donald trump in terms of 2020 in louisiana or kentucky, it will be tighter or closer than was before. but it s bad news for any person running under ticket. i can t believe we ve got to a point where we re talking about the suburbs of louisiana, of new orleans, of baton rouge, of
Trump. they threw so much behind this guy. to the people of louisiana, we ll head to the polls. you know i m really here for a little different reason. it s called early voting. you believe it? that s how much i like eddy. i m here for early voting. you know, you can go out and vote. i said well not a lot of people do that. they say in louisiana, 40% of the vote is early voting. i said, like i said, i think i ll come. i ll come here. but you re going out to replace a radical, liberal democrat as your governor john [ booing ] john bel edwards has not done the job. you re going to have a great new republican, tremendously successful man as your oftenny, ed
About kentucky dpoi. i don t know if anybody knows this or not, but matt bevin was up five points until president trump went there. you lost six points for him in one day. it s just is that bad? is that bad, son? it s bad. donald, you need check i m from the gulf coast. how did you lose louisiana? that s bad. how what how could you do that? i mean, and he s calling the governor down there what? a socialist? [ laughter ] that s louisiana. that s the most conservative democrat in a long, long time, jonathan lemire, a long, long time. this is the president went all in. i want you to imagine a business owner who s daddy gave him $400 million, okay? right? and then that business owner