florida governor ron desantis in iowa yes today, not mentioning donald trump by name, but still taking a few swipes at him. i think he was. we will show you what else he had to say about the front runner in the race for the republican nomination. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, may 31st. good to have your with us, along with joe, willie, and me. member of the new york times let s show jonathan really quick. okay, go, go. okay. we done this before. can we stop for a second? tj, i am scratching my face. you want to go to me now? and also, this historic day leave him alone. let s do jenna. hold on. cover me for a second, tj. okay. oh, we ve got jen. see, she can t even mess up! now now. good morning. okay. is my collar straight? thank you. let s actually get to work. hold on. when we do get to work, it s going to be a lot of fun, because i m going to get the yankees in a second, but these republicans will donald trump
And what has happened here is, there is a confidence. it s not a sure thing, but there s confidence on both sides that the votes are there and they will get this across the finish line. it will be close, but they will get it done, and that allows base for the outrage. that allows republicans on the fridge to throw a fit, throw the press conference to try to raise the money off of it where they can satisfy there can situate and went right to the mattresses for this thing even though they know it will pass, and the nation will not default, which will be catastrophic for everyone. i do think as soon as this is done in the next couple of days, washington is going to turn the page on it as fast as humanly possible and move onto the next thing, because there really are no winners here. they just need to get it done. i would say this, president biden can again say to the american people, it s a bipartisan thing, we got it done, we are governing with some confidence. this morning, they say t
Six months ago, you would ve never said that. his whole family moved to florida of under my governorship. are you kidding me? okay. they actually did. they actually did. i am wondering, you look at this speech, you look at the press conference. he actually does look like he may be willing to go after donald trump a little bit here and there. it s fascinating, though. telling people from iowa, you need to move to the district of columbia? i don t know, maybe not my leave. moved to the district of columbia to do what? i mean, it s not for better or worse, d.c. is not governed by the people who live here. so i think the thing desantis it s strange, right? but the thing with desantis, yesterday, from what he s trying to accomplish, it went
Elevate desantis. even trump voters like desantis. i don t know that they are going to like trump voters going after desantis, and when he does not attack him in his beaches, he talks about people moving to d.c. weird, but he s not attacking trump. the response from the press conference is one trump attacked him, and that may go over better, particularly in iowa, than what trump is doing. we haven t really seen polling yet that can tell us how desantis is actually doing since he is announced, but i m really interested to see if these trump attacks on him are hurting desantis where they end up hurting trump. he said move there for 2 to six years, i think that s what he meant. but donald trump will be in iowa, he s coming into sort of get the last word amongst those two, but this is how he ran in 2016. was the favorite of the moment? vaporized him, called him low-