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🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:56.5 | I think we've got just a massive number of people online, so it's servers restraining somewhat. |
1:02.5 | That was Elon Musk on Twitter last night launching, or trying to launch, Florida Governor |
1:07.2 | Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign. The much-bally-whoot event was delayed by technical glitches. |
1:13.2 | DeSantis joins former President Donald Trump and five other candidates so far in the race for |
1:18.4 | the Republican nomination. Axios' Alex Thompson is here with the big picture. Hey Alex. |
1:24.0 | Hey, thanks so much for having me. So Alex, that was all kind of a big mess, almost |
1:28.5 | comical. Still, at some point over half a million people were waiting, |
1:33.4 | why did DeSantis do it this way? Well, I was among the half a million, and I think |
1:38.4 | Ron DeSantis, in some ways, who is the most formidable challenger to Donald Trump? He wanted to |
1:45.7 | start with a big media splash that got a lot of attention. Now, unfortunately for him, it ended up |
1:52.0 | being a lot of negative attention because he trusted that Elon Musk and Twitter and their |
1:58.9 | technology would not crash and would not glitch, and for the first 20 to 30 minutes, they essentially |
2:05.7 | couldn't, and they had to end and restart a new one with actually a much smaller audience. |
2:10.9 | So the fact that the first campaign event of Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign was a |
2:18.0 | logistical mess was not exactly an auspicious start. This rollout was very intentionally in the |
2:24.7 | friendliest media outlets he could find. Is that typical? You mean a colleague have taken to |
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