He Republican Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday its candidacy for president of the United States by 2024 together with the businessman Elon Musk. She made it through TwitterSpacea function of the platform that allows you to have live conversations.
“We need the courage to lead and the strength to win,” DeSantis said.. “I’m Ron DeSantis, and I’m running for president.”
With a rising national profile and what are expected to be vast financial resources, DeSantis, 44, immediately becomes Trump’s biggest rival for the Republican nomination.
Connection issues
During the announcement presentation, Twitter appeared to experience technical problems as more than 400,000 people tried to listen to the conversation live, and the system’s audio repeatedly dropped before DeSantis went live.
“We have a large number of people online, so the servers are a bit saturated,” Musk was overheard saying.
“We’re reallocating server capacity to handle the load here, it’s really crazy,” the mogul continued.
Finally, the system was redirected and DeSantis formalized his announcement.
Polls show Trump with a more than 2-1 lead over the Florida governorwho has long been considered a rising Republican star and the herald of a new generation of leadership in the party.
Trump, who announced his candidacy in November, has also had an advantage in organizing his campaign in key early-voting states.
DeSantis’ central argument for his candidacy will likely be that he is the only Republican who can defeat Democratic President Joe Biden, who won over Trump in the 2020 election.
Republicans will closely watch DeSantis to see if he can recover from his foreign policy missteps, such as his initial reluctance to express support for Ukraine in its war with Russia.
Confirmed candidates for the 2024 elections
Until now, those who launched their candidacies for the republican primaries are:
- Former President Donald Trump, who is the favorite in all the polls.
- Former South Carolina Governor and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.
- Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson.
- Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.
- African-American Senator Tim Scott.
Source: Ambito
