Tag: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

DeSantis’s Team Seeks to Turn Twitter Launch Lemons Into Lemonade

Ron DeSantis and his presidential campaign have remained upbeat despite his glitch-ridden announcement on May 24. The largest crowd ever tried to sign in to his announcement’s audio room on Twitter Spaces and crashed it. That led to several stoppages, a 25-minute delay, and finally, a reboot in which far fewer people were admitted than…


DeSantis Campaign Flips Twitter Space Crash Around: ‘Help Us Break Washington Next’

Ron DeSantis and his presidential campaign have remained upbeat despite his glitch-ridden announcement on May 24. The largest crowd ever tried to sign in to his announcement’s audio room on Twitter Spaces and crashed it. That led to several stoppages, a 25-minute delay, and finally, a reboot in which far fewer people were admitted than…


DeSantis Maps Out How He’ll Beat Trump And Then Biden

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he can win the Republican presidential nomination over Donald Trump because he’s broadly acceptable to Republicans. He says he will then beat Joe Biden in the general election because he has the proven strength to appeal to independents. “I won 97 percent of Republicans in my reelection,” DeSantis said in…


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…


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 Says He’d Remove FBI Director Chris Wray If Elected President

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said during his 2024 presidential announcement that he would remove FBI Director Chris Wray if he were elected president. During his presidential announcement on Twitter Spaces, DeSantis was asked how he’d address growing concerns over misconduct and misuse of resources at the FBI, which is a primary subject of the House…


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…


DeSantis Formally Files to Run for President

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis filed a formal notification with the Federal Election Commission that he is running for president, his spokesman Bryan Griffin told The Epoch Times. He filed at 2:24 p.m., Griffin said. DeSantis, whose entry into the race has been awaited for months, is expected to publically announce his candidacy tonight at 6…


DeSantis Files Paperwork to Run for President in 2024

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on May 24 filed a formal notification with the Federal Election Commission that he is running for president. DeSantis, whose entry into the race has been awaited for months, is expected to publically announce his candidacy tonight at 6 p.m. on the Twitter social media platform with Elon Musk. An elections…