DeSantis announces he’s running for President
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
4.1 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis officially announced he’s running for President in 2024. DeSantis’ decision to run sets up a clash with current Republican primary frontrunner, former President Trump, who once endorsed him for Florida governor. Former Trump White House Director of Communications Alyssa Farah Griffin tells Anderson Cooper what kind of “campaigner” DeSantis is and if he stands a chance against Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. We begin with breaking news. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announcing on Twitter. |
| 0:05.2 | Eventually, he is running for president. But the livestream event with Elon Musk certainly |
| 0:09.2 | did not go according to plan. It was played with technical problems and delayed for nearly 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.3 | If you tuned in when it was supposed to start, you would have heard silence. Then after about |
| 0:17.9 | 12 minutes of that, you would have heard this. So let's see. |
| 0:23.3 | So we just keep crashing him. I think we've got a massive number of people online. So it's |
| 0:32.2 | servers are straining somewhat. That was Elon Musk saying that the servers are straining somewhat. |
| 0:37.7 | Then there were silence again. The former president is already mocking the governor's debut. |
| 0:41.7 | A campaign spokesman saying, quote, glitchy tech issues and uncomfortable silence is a complete |
| 0:45.9 | failure or launch. And that's just the candidate. So you know, Jessica Dean joins us now from Miami. |
| 0:50.9 | So last night in the program, we talked about how a live event on Twitter with Elon Musk could |
| 0:55.1 | either be compelling or a train wreck. It certainly started out pretty badly. What exactly happened? |
| 1:02.8 | Well, Anderson, people tuned in at 6 p.m. just like they had been told to do. And as you just |
| 1:08.0 | let everyone hear, there were a number of glitches that went on for some 20, 30 minutes before they |
| 1:13.9 | were able to finally get the ship righted as it were and allow governor DeSantis to announce that |
| 1:19.9 | he's running for president, which was exactly what he was there to do. And they had tried to really |
| 1:24.0 | pick this unconventional way of doing it. And of course, that comes with risks. Watch this. |
| 1:30.9 | Do you go with the crowd or do you look at the data yourself and cut against the grain? And I chose |
| 1:36.7 | to do the latter. Florida governor, Rhonda Santis' attempt to declare his candidacy for president |
| 1:41.4 | in a unique way with Twitter owner Elon Musk on Twitter spaces and audio only platform, |
| 1:47.1 | plagued by technical issues at the start. I think we've got just a massive number of people |
| 1:54.4 | online. So it's servers restraining somewhat. But server issues caused the rollout to be plagued |
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