beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho
republican leadership to speak for them. those voters are hearing that and going, i m not doing crazy. i m not, i just can t. yeah. so you re seeing that reflected in a lot of these numbers. while people want to fixate on, oh, well, joe biden is old or joe biden has a bad poll, voters invariably, to joe s earlier point, are falling back to the point that, i can t do crazy. there is no red wave. i can t do crazy. democrats are winning these special elections in places like florida, in some of the largest cities that they shouldn t be winning in. so from jacksonville to wisconsin to kansas, democrats have been wildly overperforming, even in red areas. that s exactly right, joe. i mean, how much does abortion have to play with that when you look at these, what s happening in these states? i just can t imagine that these
beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire.
lot of people say, a different place. it even feels different just being there. you know, no matter where he goes in his presidential campaign, he s already had, i think, a measurable effect on the national political debate. he s changed if face of america with how he pushed this sweeping agenda in florida and the effectiveness he s had there. for all the criticism governor desantis received nationally, including here, he s around 60% in the state of florida, up, not down. he won by 19 points in the race by charlie crist. he s still popular in florida, is the point. last week, we got a little look at the theory of his race against donald trump. which is, i win. if you want to keep losing is go with donald trump, is what he s implying. you want to win? go with me. what else will he bring in terms of criticism and attacks on donald trump, a man who donald trump says to whom he owes his
rating, 21% approval among the independent voters who decide these elections. then there will be another poll the end of this week or next week that will show something in reverse. yeah. show the race tightening up. we have difficulty, not us here, but i think the country who follows people who follow these things have difficulty in realizing that it s only the third week in may. third week in may. the impact of a poll at this point, jennifer, i would think would be practically zero. it is not near the impact president biden might have in tokyo and might have when he comes back from tokyo, getting the debt ceiling issue taken care of. right, nothing well, what really happens in the last part of the month. as a former republican, i m curious, why does it work that way? if there is a negative poll against joe biden, the entire media world melts down. the entire democratic party melts down.