Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched his campaign for the 2024 US presidency in a Twitter forum marred by technical glitches.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk held a Twitter event alongside the Republican politician.
The Twitter broadcast of the hour-long interview , which had been intended as the formal launch for the DeSantis campaign, lost sound for extended stretches and thousands of users were either unable to join or were dropped."We must end the culture of losing that has infected the Republican Party in recent years," DeSantis said in the event with Musk once the problems were largely resolved. The hashtag #DeSaster was trending on Twitter.
He defended his efforts in Florida to prohibit the teaching of concepts such as gender identity and systemic racism as protecting young children and pushing back against progressive ideology. At one point, the Twitter event drew more than 600,000 listeners. By its conclusion, there were fewer than 300,000.
"Our president, while he lacks vigor, flounders in the face of our nation's challenges and he takes cues from the woke mob," DeSantis said.
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