Big fiasco to start the campaign. The governor of Florida, Ron de Santis, had called through a Twitter audio program to present his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections by the hand of tycoon Elon Musk. But it has been a blunder. Due to technical problems, with hundreds of thousands of people connected, the connection fell and was cut all the time. When the scheduled time had been exceeded by about 25 minutes, only a few choppy sentences had been heard.
While the experiment was shipwrecked, Joe Biden has trolled him with a tweet: "This link works" and by clicking he was leading to his campaign. For his part, DeSantis has presented his candidacy in parallel through a video that has been given in premiere by the conservative Fox News channel, which has also disseminated it on the Internet. DeSantis has tweeted the video, which in this case has worked.
In that first video of his campaign, DeSantis presents himself as the candidate of the resurgence after a message with apocalyptic beginning in which he avoids quoting Donald Trump: "Our border is a disaster. The federal government infests our cities with crime and makes it difficult for families to make ends meet. And the president is reeling. But decay is an option. Success is achievable. And freedom is worth fighting for. Remaking this ship requires returning sanity to our society, normalcy to our communities, and integrity to our institutions. Truth must be our foundation. And common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue. In Florida, we showed that it's possible. We choose facts over fear, education over doctrine, action, law and order over riots and disorder. We held the line when freedom hung in the balance, we showed that we can and must revitalize America. We need the courage to lead and the strength to win. I'm Ron DeSantis. And I'm running for president to lead our great American resurgence," reads his first speech as a candidate.
I'm running for president to lead our Great American Comeback. pic.twitter.com/YmkWkLaVDg
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) May 24, 2023
Then, despite the technical problems being repeated, DeSantis has been able to start delivering his message. Although in theory the program was presented as a dialogue, it has started with what seemed like a long intervention read with arguments similar to those in the video. He has avoided quoting Trump in his opening remarks.
DeSantis has spoken in his opening remarks of immigrant invasion, crime, drugs and insecurity. In each intervention, he uses Florida as an example of where things work best.
So far, neither Elon Musk nor moderator David Sacks, a Republican donor, friend of Musk and supporter of DeSantis, have asked him about Donald Trump.
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