insurrection. and the choice is pretty clear here. pretty clear, and so clear that i suppose the one thing, jen, that we can thank donald trump for is the return of ticket splitters. i mean, let s go state by state. you look at georgia. georgia voters elected a republican governor, a democratic senator, a lot of people that voted for that republican governor voted for the democratic senator, you go to arizona, they said all of these statewide candidates are crazy and they went all democratic. when they were voting for members of congress, they found some people that weren t crazy. they voted for those members of congress. pennsylvania, a hell of a lot of people that voted for dr. oz also voted for governor shapiro there. you can go to wisconsin. in close races, a democratic
new wall street journal poll says that in a hypothetical gop primary match up, desantis beats the former president 52% to 38%. yay? also maybe boo. it s hard to know who to root for here. okay. welcome back to morning joe. hour two, guys, it s thursday, december 15th. just a beautiful sunrise over new york city, by the way. it s 7:00 a.m. there as we look at the comcast building, of course mika s penthouse. if you re not up, time to get up. let s go, let s work out. jonathan lemire and jen palmieri are still with us. thought she was going to get a shuttle to come up to new york. that s next hour. she ll still have time. and joining the conversation, we have professor at princeton
wrong about chavez, and that tells you a lot. and he also recently awarded an apartment to a woman who became his 3 millionth twitter follower, and he is a big twitter follower. yes, he is wildly popular and the message is getting through to twitter again, and he did this, and he is rewarding somebody for being the 3 millionth follower. can you imagine if president obama or mitt romney were giving away homes on live television? no. thank you, miguel. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m suzanne malveaux and this hour in the cnn newsroom, we will tell you how the worst drought that america has seen in 50 years is affect iing the cro and the economy and our pocketbooks. and the white house takes mitt romney and two possible vp candidates to ohio. and the fda bans a chemical from baby bottles and why are adults still living with it? we go to wilted crops in fields, and soil drying up, and half of the country s farms are reaching drought which is the most since
captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight we re tracking a danger ouz tornado outbreak. powerful twisters across ohio, tennessee, mississippi, alabama and indiana where four deaths have now been confirmed. in kentucky a yellow school bus slammed into a building. its front half obliterated. in tennessee, homes are ripped from their foundation, splintered by the winds. at least six people critically hurt in that state. in alabama a trailer home lifted up and crashed upside down near a tree. the naked lot and a few stairs all that s left. and here s a power line crumpled like a paper clip. millions are affected and this is far far from over. we re keeping an eye on it all with the help of our cnn meteorologist chad myers in the severe weather center. chad, what are you watching right now? john, i m watching 11 literally 11 states with a tornado watch in effect. i m watching 21 tornado warnings. watch a short word, not quite as important, warning the bigger word. more let
he did. want to take sides on other ohio questions, one on health care, perhaps. he s a flip-flopper should have been more careful. his critics suggest romney was noncommittal not because he was confused, but because polls now show a majority of ohioans oppose the measure and ohio will be a critical fall 2012 battleground. to those critics, a change of expediency on par with romney s explanation of why he fired for lawn care company. now, romney s advantage in this race is real, very real. but so are the risks. ohio democrats taunted governor romney today suggesting he lacked the courage to tell them to their face, to express his support for anti-union measure while he was right there on monday. is that fair? maybe not. we have already seen what has happened to candidates who are perceived to lack courage. president obama said that he designed obamacare after romneycare and basically made it obamneycare. governor pawlenty refused to back up the phrase. why? let me f