are for open to banning assault weapons. they ll hammer that message. alexi, thank you for being with us this morning. we appreciate it. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. jack-packed morning joe starts right now. one of the constants over the years is baseball. america has rolled by like an army of steamrollers, built like a blackboard, erased and erased again. but baseball has marked the time. this field, this game, it s a part of our past, ray. it reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. oh, people will come, ray. people will most definitely come. willie. there you go. good morning. that line. welcome to morning joe. all that was good. 30th. all can be good once again. so many l opening day. opening day, yes. very exciting, huh? best part about opening day is, no matter who you are, any team, there s hope. right now, sitting here this morning, there s hope. now, hey there s a point
if it s trump and biden, go to france for a month. he s lost his mind. now, he is fighting his own children. he said he wanted to terminate the constitution. and their inheritance. they ll still win. the country doesn t like election denial. they don t like the insurrection. they didn t like what happened on capitol hill on january 6th. who is the guy republicans rally behind? the guy on stage with the convict choir. convict choir. talk about not changing the dynamic. what are you doing? it s just really unbelievable. they got the convict choir. donald trump says he wants to terminate the constitution. yes. look at the numbers. wants to terminate the constitution. mika, there s a new piece in the st. louis dispatch. this is backing up the point in a different way. columnist lynn schmidt says it is too late to challenge trump, his control of the party and
would have gone around and said he loved his kids, right, or his supporters loved their kids. i don t know he would have gone that far, mittens or no mittens. you know, the only counter argument to all of this is that there are glimmers that desantis has a window, an edge with some key voters, particularly the monmouth poll showing he was ahead with evangelical voters. is there a chance they come to iowa, you know, trump had an upset like in 2016? i know he accused ted cruz of stealing, i think it was stealing iowa. sounds familiar, right? i just think there are possibilities for desantis. he s got to show that he has the backbone to take on trump, and we haven t seen any of that yet. certain evangelical voters aren t looking at trump the say way. doesn t look like he ll get 80%. they got their supreme court theyroe overturned. there s a window for somebody, i think, with that section of the republican base.
base. trump has enough voters. he has control of the state parties. he has a significant influence over the national party. and his opponents have done too little to distinguish themselves from trump. let alone explain why he shouldn t be president again. the resentment that trump voters feel hasn t changed the last seven years. to think they have is foolish. my neighbor just replaced his somewhat tattered trump flag with a brand-new one, which, incidentally fly it high, friend. exklains, biden sucks. he, like other republican base voters, still loves trump. the time for wishing trump out of the national picture is long gone. this is me now. they ve missed their window. the window is, unfortunately, now, these crazy moments. i don t know if he missed his window. the question is, can he go toe to toe with donald trump? the answer we ve seen is no.
story, it is fulfilling about my dad. we were driving around on my first re-elect. i had 73% of the vote. i was sitting in the front seat. we were picking up yard signs. i thought my dad was going to be proud. who the hell are those 27%? joey, you have to go after them. what in the hell is going yeah. people want to know why i m crazy, because that s how all republicans used to be. we used to despise losing, hate it. now, they re a bunch of losers. they want to lose. yeah, it s hard to see as stronger as trump is getting in the primary, he is going to be that much weaker in the general election. what voter voted for him in 16, broke away in 20, and now says to themselves, you know what, 2024, now is the time. i like what trump has done these last four years. the farmers video really got me. i m for him right now. that s what the democrats are looking at, too. they understand, there are some, perhaps, enthusiasm issues with president biden, but they look