Oct. 5, 2022: What to expect from Elon Musk's Twitter

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

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President Joe Biden will arrive this afternoon in Fort Myers, Fla., where he will survey the damage from Hurricane Ian via helicopter and then receive a briefing on disaster response and recovery efforts from state and local officials, including one of his most bitter political rivals: Gov. Ron DeSantis. The president and the governor have talked on the phone several times. They’ve complimented each other. Florida Playbook author Gary Fineout calls it “a rare moment of bipartisan calm” in his preview from Tallahassee. So what explains the detente — especially the mature reaction from DeSantis, who has defined himself by an own-the-libs style of politics? And it looks as though Elon Musk will go ahead with the $44 billion purchase of Twitter that he first proposed in April. Recall that Musk tried to abandon the deal weeks later and soon found himself in messy litigation with the company. The judge in the case has ruled against Musk at nearly every turn and, with a deposition and trial looming, Musk appears to have reversed course yet again. Twitter is enormously consequential to American politics and media, and the takeover by Musk will have major implications. He’s such a micromanager that when Tesla was having production issues he famously camped out on a factory floor to help solve assembly problems. Despite all his tweets, we don’t know the full picture of what Musk plans for the platform. But he has made a few things clear. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Farma.
0:02.0	Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Rogumonovalin. It's Wednesday.
0:07.0	President Joe Biden heads down to Florida, and Elon Musk might actually be taking over Twitter.
0:12.0	It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:18.0	President Joe Biden will arrive this afternoon in Fort Myers, Florida, where he'll survey the damage from Hurricane Ian via helicopter,
0:25.0	and then receive a briefing on disaster response and recovery efforts from state and local officials.
0:30.6	That's including one of his most bitter political rivals, Governor Ron DeSantis.
0:35.8	Biden recently described the flights DeSantis arranged to transport
0:39.2	Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Massachusetts as reckless and un-American. Partisanship has
0:45.5	royal relations in recent years between the White House and governors of the opposite party
0:50.8	when it comes to federal aid for states. Hucking Barack Obama damaged Governor Chris Christie's career in GOP politics, and it killed
0:58.6	Governor Charlie Chris, so much so that he's now a Democrat running against DeSantis.
1:03.6	The Donald Trump era brought what you could call a new twist to federal state relations
1:07.7	when the former president repeatedly threatened to punish blue states
1:11.5	and withhold aid from governors he didn't like.
1:14.6	So it's not unusual that the press has been on high alert for a Biden-de-Santis throwdown
1:19.5	since before Hurricane Ian even landed on Florida's southwest coast.
1:24.0	But so far, it hasn't come.
1:26.4	The president and the governor have talked on the phone
1:28.5	several times. They've complimented each other. For the playbook author, Gary Fine Out calls it
1:33.0	a rare moment of bipartisan calm and his preview from Tallahassee that you can check out in
1:38.2	today's playbook. So it explains the detente, especially the mature reaction from DeSantis,
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