How do you know when a candidate knows he’s losing before he starts running? When they resort to gimmicks to launch their campaign.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will announce he is running for president during a conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, three sources familiar with the plans told NBC News.
Musk and DeSantis will host an event on Twitter Spaces, the site’s audio chat platform, on Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET. It will be moderated by David Sacks, a tech entrepreneur who is a Musk confidant and DeSantis supporter.
Ron DeSantis is launching his presidential campaign in an audio-only format on a social media site that has left advertisers and users bleeding. The purpose of this gimmick is not to spread the message that Ron DeSantis is a presidential candidate.
Governor DeSantis is trying to steal the headlines and do something ‘out of the box’ to generate attention at least that would probably be the spin on DeSantis’ part which would read something like ‘we are the young new disruptors who are be trembling’. boosting the status quo of campaign announcements.”
The truth is that DeSantis has a hard time getting along with people. His book tour stops were painful to watch. Gov. DeSantis is no good behind a stage and needs a medium to hide his shortcomings.
DeSantis is also feeling the pressure of the polls, which are not worth much right now, but they all agree that he is losing big to Trump.
Trump got a CNN town hall that generated days of media attention for him, not for good reasons, but he got all the attention he wanted. DeSantis goes to a Twitter Space and then to the 8 p.m. Fox News death slot to be interviewed by Trey Gowdy.
None of this screams winner. It smacks of a candidate who didn’t think he’d lose now while trying to catch up.
If this is the Ron DeSantis campaign’s idea of an epic presidential campaign rollout, they’re in bigger trouble than we thought.