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DeSantis launches the challenge to Trump on Twitter with Musk

2023-05-24T17:31:32.170Z

Highlights: Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, launches his presidential campaign on Twitter. The 44-year-old is considered a young, cultured and disciplined version of Donald Trump. The move has already attracted a lot of criticism, starting from the tycoon's entourage. The former president fired a volley at 'Ron DeSanctus' accusing him of being 'disloyal' and having no charisma. 'He desperately needs a personality transplant and, as far as I know, it's not available medically yet,' he said.


The former president on the attack: 'He is disloyal and without charisma' (ANSA)


The Republican governor of Florida Ron DeSantis, who aspires to become the first Italian-American president of the United States by snatching the nomination from Donald Trump, comes out into the open, after waiting a long time like that alligator in the swamp ready to bite that appears on the black page of the RonDeSantis.com site. And he does so with a controversial move but that guarantees him a wide audience of potential voters, choosing for the announcement of his descent into the field a conversation on Twitter Spaces, Twitter's audio platform, together with the CEO of the company that tweets Elon Musk, his admirer and supporter with over 140 million followers (in addition to the 4.2 of DeSantis himself): A much wider audience than that of American television.

"I think it's pretty revolutionary that such an announcement happens on social media," said the Twitter boss, who also hopes to revive the fortunes of the platform after having earthquake it, even rehabilitating right-wing conspiratorial accounts, including that of Donald Trump, who however preferred to stay on Truth.

In fact, it is the first time that a presidential candidate launches his race on the internet, although immediately after the leader of Florida promised an interview with Fox News, the conservative network that has turned its back on Trump by rolling out the red carpet to what is considered - even in the polls - his main rival. It is not yet known whether DeSantis will personally announce his donor campaign at the Four Seasons in Miami on May 24 and 25 or next week in the city where he grew up, Dunedin, in Tampa Bay, Florida. His campaign, however, is ready to take off, with a super PAC ('Never back down') that has $ 200 million in cash and is recruiting an army of people to knock door to door to voters in the states where the Republican primaries will start.

The choice of the announcement on Twitter with Musk has already attracted a lot of criticism. Starting from the tycoon's entourage. "This is one of the most unusual campaign launches in modern history. The only thing worse than launching a niche campaign on Twitter is DeSantis' ultra-elite afterparty at Miami's luxurious Four Seasons resort," said Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for Make America Great Again, the campaign committee that backs Trump. "The announcement on Twitter is perfect for DeSantis, this way he doesn't have to interact with people and the media can't ask him questions," an adviser to the tycoon echoed. The former president fired a volley at Truth, accusing 'Ron DeSanctus' of being "disloyal," failing to win the general election and having no charisma: "He desperately needs a personality transplant and, as far as I know, it's not available medically yet."

The move of the governor of Florida has its advantages, starting from the wide social audience to the involvement of the richest man in the world (although he is also one of the most controversial), ready to give him his endorsement after converting from voting for Joe Biden ("I regretted it") to the support of the Republican Party. But he exposes him to the jabs of those who reproach him for keeping away from public confrontation, especially with the fourth estate: in his last triumphant campaign for re-election he did not grant a single interview to any mainstream media.

A lawyer with studies at Harvard and Yale, a former Navy officer also sent (as a lawyer) to Iraq and Guantanamo (where there are shadows), three children and a former TV reporter as a wife-adviser with first lady ambitions, the 44-year-old DeSantis is considered a young, cultured and disciplined version of Trump but more ideological. For The Atlantic, he is the most authoritarian governor in the United States. So far he has administered with crusades pro-gun and against the restrictions of the pandemic, immigrants (sent by bus to the Dem states), abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, teaching students critical theory of race (today a school has banned the poem 'The hill we climb', written by the African-American poet Amanda Gorman) and sexual orientation, up to clashing in court with Disney on the 'don't say gay' law. And with some slips into foreign policy, as when he declassified the war in Ukraine as a "territorial dispute". His recipe is to propose the model he has shaped in his state, in short, 'make America Florida'. To see what the rest of the country thinks.

Source: ansa

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