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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that he is running in 2024
The campaign's first official pre-launch video was released to Twitter Spaces chat, confirming DeSantis' bid.
During his conversation with Musk, DeSantis touted his record on handling COVID, took swipes at Donald Trump, and promised to undo "everything" President Biden was doing on the border.
The highly anticipated start of his 2024 White House run started 26 minutes late and crashed multiple times as hundreds of thousands of users tuned in to DeSantis' conversation with the Twitter CEO.
"I am running for President of the United States to lead our great American comeback," DeSantis said. But we know that our country is going in the wrong direction. We see it with our own eyes. And we feel it in our bones.
Instead of starting with the expected 'historic' announcement on Twitter Spaces, the app ran into glitches that would prevent the event from going off the air.
DeSantis snubbed Fox over the ad — something the platform poked fun at by saying if viewers wanted to "actually see and hear Ron DeSantis," they'd tune in to his 8 p.m.
Musk said at one point during the event that "the servers were stressed," and the host blamed the glitches on the number of people watching, which he claimed was "a good thing."
Listeners could hear "Just try to move on" when it became clear that frustration was building.
Moderator David Sacks, a tech entrepreneur close to Musk, kicked off the conversation by claiming that DeSantis was engaged in a "social media first" by "making history" through advertising.
However, the event is likely to be remembered for glitches.
Once the event finally got off the ground, DeSantis confirmed to Musk that he had entered the Republican presidential race just hours after filing the paperwork needed to launch a bid for the White House.
Once the event finally got off the ground, DeSantis confirmed to the Tesla CEO and Twitter that he had entered the Republican presidential primary race just hours after filing the paperwork needed to launch a bid for the White House.
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