5 Takeaways From the DeSantis 2024 Campaign Launch Night

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis paid a price on the opening night of his campaign for gambling on a new launch format, with the Twitter chatroom crashing after some 600,000 listeners attempted to tune in.

But after tech issues were resolved, the conversation on Twitter Spacesโ€”with billionaire Elon Musk and investor David Sacksโ€”quickly turned to policy, both foreign and domestic.

During the Spaces chat, a subsequent interview on Fox News, and a call with reporters from The Epoch Times and other media, the governor and now GOP presidential candidate introduced his approach to China, how he would handle the FBI, and addressed a wide range of issues, including his approach to abortion laws and his ongoing conflict with Disney.

Launch Rocked by Tech Issues

The bold choice to launch his campaign on Twitter backfired briefly but spectacularly on May 24, when Twitter CEO Elon Musk tried and failed repeatedly to launch the Space chatroom from his account. Issues with audio and other bugs persisted with some 600,000 Twitter users flooding into the chatroom.

โ€œIt seems we broke the internet with so much excitement,โ€ the Team DeSantis Twitter page posted, encouraging voters to donate โ€œwhile youโ€™re waiting.โ€ The campaign raised more than $1 million on its first night.

Twenty minutes later, Sacks launched the space from his account and the hour-long conversation kicked off. Musk and Sacks joked that they โ€œbrokeโ€ the internet, with Musk explaining that the size of his following had caused โ€œscaling issues.โ€

The second space paired down significantly, with around 300,000 listeners without further issues.

The brief tech fiasco drew mockery from both the right and left, with former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden firing off messages ridiculing DeSantis.

โ€œThe DeSanctus TWITTER launch is a DISASTER! His whole campaign will be a disaster,โ€ Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.

Byย Ivan Pentchoukov,ย Dan M. Berger,ย Joseph Lord,ย Samantha Flomย andย Savannah Hulsey Pointer

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