Category: DeSantis 2024

DeSantis Says He Wants to Settle Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, during an interview announcing his 2024 presidential bid on May 24, said that he hopes for a settlement of the Russia-Ukraine war. “I want to see a settlement of this,” DeSantis said. “I do not want to see a wider war.” While he admitted that it’s “unknowable” what the situation could…


Presidential Candidate DeSantis Identifies China as America’s ‘Foremost Geopolitical Threat’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on May 24 that he would deal with China as the United States’ “foremost geopolitical threat” if he were elected as the 47th president of the United States. In an interview with Fox News not long after announcing his presidential candidacy on Twitter, DeSantis emphasized the need to recognize China…


DeSantis Raises $1 Million in First Hour of Presidential Candidacy

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raised $1 million within one hour of formally announcing his presidential candidacy, according to his campaign. DeSantis announced his 2024 run for president on May 24 during a Twitter Spaces interview with the social media platform’s owner Elon Musk. But the interview was plagued by technical problems as Twitter’s web servers repeatedly…


DeSantis Explains Why He Chose Twitter to Announce 2024 Run

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis explained why he chose Twitter as the platform for the announcement of his presidential candidacy, saying that his approach to dealing with COVID-19 led him to make decisions based on data rather than following the crowd. His decision to use the tech platform, however, was not without hiccups. The Twitter Spaces…


DeSantis 2024 Launch on Twitter Rocked by Tech Issues

Competitors of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in the 2024 presidential election reveled in the technical difficulties that tarnished his official announcement using Twitter Spaces on May 24, just after his official entry into the presidential race, while the DeSantis campaign boasted about the “unprecedented” scale of the launch with Twitter CEO Elon Musk. DeSantis, who…


DeSantis Responds to Disney Criticism: Nobody ‘Has Made Disney More Money Than Me’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said during his 2024 presidential launch that nobody “has made Disney more money than me,” and defended his continued feud with the media giant. “Nobody probably has made Disney more money than me because they were opened [in Florida] during COVID and they were closed in California,” DeSantis said during a…


Trump Responds to DeSantis’s Campaign Launch: ‘There’s Only One Donald Trump’

As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was formally announcing his candidacy for president on Twitter on May 24, his top Republican rival for the job shared his own message to voters via social media: “There’s only one Donald Trump.” In two campaign ads shared to Trump’s Truth Social account, DeSantis is depicted as an ungrateful “Trump…


DeSantis Launches 2024 Run for President

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he is running for president in a video posted to Twitter on May 24. “I’m Ron DeSantis. And I’m running for president to lead our great American comeback,” DeSantis says in the short campaign launch video posted to Twitter minutes ahead of his Twitter Spaces conversation with one of the world’s richest…


Former Trump Adviser Reveals How DeSantis Could Beat Trump in 2024 Primary

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Wednesday that she believes Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a chance of winning the 2024 GOP primary against former President Donald Trump if he focuses on “policy distinctions.” McEnany, who worked as a Trump 2020 campaign adviser before joining Fox News as an on-air commentator…


Trump Rips ‘Disloyal’ DeSantis Amid Launch of Rival’s Presidential Bid

Hours before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was set to officially announce his candidacy for president, his top rival for the Republican nomination unleashed a fury of criticism via social media, targeting everything from the governor’s electability to his personality and character. “Ron DeSanctus can’t win the General Election (or get the nomination) because he voted…