executive producer casey dolan, and not to be left out here with me in our d.c. studio is none other than jason neil, jason, the camera over here, son of our executive producer jasper, jasper i used your daddy s name and i am so sorry. this is jasper neil, son of michelle perry neil and jason neil jasper is bilingual in english and spanish, an ace math student, and he s going to be taking over the show one way or another in about 20 years. so thanks to all of you, jasper, eleanor, and daphne, and that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. follow the show online, on facebook, and on twitter @mitchellreports chris jansing reports starts right now. good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. ron desantis is halfway around the world but still feeling the heat back home, from donors, supporters, and of course donald trump. is it enough to get him to finally commit to launching a presidential campaign? our new reporting that he s r
About the big picture here we re not going to expect joe biden to be doing campaigning and advertising in a place like montana, but we can absolutely count on the folks who zooey zephyr a run for something alum has inspired, has gotten furious at montana republicans to show up, to knock doors, to make calls, not just on her behalf and not just on another dm democrats behalf but on senator jon tester s behalf. all of that is going to help get that senate seat across the line especially in a state that honestly joe biden isn t going to fight for nor should he given the dynamics at play so we are really looking ahead how can these local races, not just win for their own sake but help gin up turnout for the rest of the democratic ticket. let me go back to what you said earlier, which is that you re getting this record number of people who are interested we see that zooey zephyr, justin jones, justin pearson all just pretty much took office, and are they representative of what
Calculation that he made in picking this fight with disney, and it s been going for several months now, and desantis is clearly trying to galvanize the sort of far right social conservative part of the republican primary base with with this fight, but he has to remember that disney has sort of general popularity around the country. there are lots of sort of everyday middle americans that like disney films, that travel to disney world. it s a very complicated fight for him to make politically, not to mention the economic impacts in florida it s an employer of 75,000 people in the orlando area, a huge moneymaker in terms of revenue, but also in terms of providing jobs in his home state, and so these are all factors that make this a very complex path for him to be taking right now. big picture, may calichael, e to ask you about the republican autopsy report on the 2022 midterms according to the washington
Went home with his buddy, and they re watching the last round of the masters. the night before this happened the night before. and little did you know that five days earlier he had purchased a weapon. no idea. no clue when asked what she would say to the families of the five victims, lisa sturgeon said we are so sorry we wish we could undo it, but we know we can t. the montana house votes to censure a transgender lawmaker with more people saying just how much power is in the hands of state legislatures, do these kinds of stories encourage or discourage potential candidates? that s next.
Exploratory committee fist, and then that followed by a full launch of his campaign and you know, as you said, there has been a lot of pressure on ron desantis right now to get into this race, really start throwing some punches, being able to hire up in the way that he should be, being able to push back appropriately on some of these attacks by donald trump. i mean, right now we have a super pac doing that, but this also allays a lot of anxiety by donors who really want to see him doing those things so michael that s where we are right now. i think a lot of people would say, even though he hasn t announced, obviously ron desantis is running, and he s got the infrastructure, he s got the super pac, he s, you know, doing the requisite tour as he just put it around the world, but what s it going to take if he s going to get the mojo i mean it has been a rough three or four months for him it has been a roughthree or four months, and that was to