DeSantis’s presidential launch flops on Twitter

Talk about a power failure. Ron DeSantis finally unveiled his long-awaited 2024 bid to become president last night in a glitch-riddled Twitter announcement plagued by technical difficulties. The Florida Governor filed a declaration of candidacy with the US federal electoral commission on Wednesday and then announced his move in an online chat with Twitter head honcho Elon Musk.

But the audio stream crashed repeatedly, making it almost impossible for most of the followers to hear DeSantis speak most of the time. The event got off to a rocky start after technical issues meant there were minutes of silence, with those who endured being subsequently kicked off the feed, subject to microphone feedback, hold music and other issues. Musk blamed the popularity of the event and ‘straining’ servers, claiming that: ‘You can tell by the mistakes that it’s real.’

Those that could hear the 44-year-old Republican were told that ‘American decline is not inevitable – it is a choice.