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So that's actually what it sounded like last night when Ron DeSantis decided to launch his campaign on Twitter spaces with Elon Musk.

Now, yesterday I said this is kind of a cool idea, right? Because this is edging around the legacy media. Instead of relying on the legacy media to introduce you to the crowd, you just go direct to the crowd. It's basically an extension of what Trump did in 2016 when he took to Twitter in order to set the narrative pretty much every morning. Instead, DeSantis decided that he was going to combine with Elon Musk, who is the most powerful people and richest person on earth, in order to introduce himself to a very large crowd. And one of the big questions was going to be how that played. And the other big question was going to be, would it even work? Well, not so much was the story of yesterday night.

So about 6 p.m., a bunch people tuned in.

When I see a bunch people, I mean, a lot of people.

I mean, 700,000 people simultaneously tuned in to listen to what Rhonda Santos and Elon Musk were willing to say to one another.

And they waited.

And then they waited some more.

And then at about five, six six minutes in a few voices could be

heard people whispering into microphones people not being clear if the if the tech was work and and to a

certain extent it was like wow is this really what a campaign launch is going to sound like what is going

on this is really weird on the other hand it was like wow look at the authenticity this is cool

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