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A bumpy campaign launch for Ron DeSantis

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched his 2024 presidential campaign via Twitter Spaces on Wednesday evening. Elon Musk's event was plagued by technical glitches and delays. Plus, how a government app is affecting the war in Ukraine. Remembering George Floyd on the 3rd anniversary of his murder. And, the world says goodbye to Tina Turner. Guests: Axios' Alex Thompson and Dave Lawler, journalist Robert Samuels. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Emily Peck, Alexandra Botti, Fonda Mwangi, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Robin Linn and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go Deeper: Ron DeSantis declares 2024 candidacy in glitchy Twitter Spaces event Trump campaign ad takes aim at DeSantis after governor enters 2024 race His Name is George Floyd co-author Robert Samuels Tina Turner, Magnetic Singer of Explosive Power, Is Dead at 83 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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