![]() ![]() ![]() But by the time he started, the app showed there were less than 300,000 people listening in, a tiny fraction of Elon Musk’s 140 million Twitter followers. Seeing as how a DeSantis victory would hurt his financially lucrative spot in the cottage industry of anti-Trump books, Karl tried to claim there was little interest in DeSantis:ĭeSantis claimed the problems were caused because the audience was so large. “is plan to kick things off with a conversation with billionaire Elon Musk on Twitter was a mess.Riddled with technical difficulties, roundly mocked on conservative media, Fox News calling it a ‘disaster,’” Karl hyped. Over on the Disney-owned ABC, there was never any doubt as to whether Good Morning America would join in.Īfter co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos described the launch as “marred” and “riddled with technical difficulties,” chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl conceded DeSantis is “the most formidable Republican challenger to Donald Trump” with some “advantages.”Īside from that, it was more of the same. ![]() In the second hour, co-host Savannah Guthrie led into Gutierrez’s live shot by tut-tutting over the campaign for their “bumpy start.” Look, he’s a bold leader willing to try new things and not going to do the cookie-cutter approach. Because of the glitches in hindsight should he have stuck with a traditional announcement?ĭAN EBERHART: I don’t think so. We spoke with one of his donors, who was in the room with other supporters as the glitches unfolded. GUTIERREZ: In Miami, a group of protesters gathered outside a DeSantis fundraising meeting in an upscale hotel. PROTESTERS: This is what democracy looks like! I mean, I think that’s not what - that’s not what the American people want to see. Trump, the GOP front-runner, by more than 25 points in many polls, but DeSantis is well ahead of any other potential challengers for now. GUTIERREZ: With the race in its infancy, Governor DeSantis trails Mr. ![]() He continued to pummel DeSantis with attacks from the left and right even though he’s framed by the press as having little shot of victory (click “expand”) “But his critics could hardly contain their delight,” he explained, “especially former President Trump slamming the Twitter announcement as a ‘disaster.’ Even President Biden tweeting a fundraising page, dryly pointing out, ‘this link works.’” And so, former President Trump, Governor DeSantis’s main political rival, is having a field day, blasting the unusual campaign launch and calling it a disaster.įurther lampooning the nearly half-hour delay as “a rocky rollout,” Gutierrez completely ignored anything DeSantis said on policy. This launch had several hundred thousand listeners. Governor DeSantis’s team trying to brush this off, saying the candidate broke the internet, but other campaign launches on other platforms like YouTube and more traditional outlets typically have millions of eyeballs. National correspondent Gabe Gutierrez suggested DeSantis’s campaign has little in the way of interest and cheered Trump’s response: She added ahead of the first report that the server issues with Twitter left “the campaign scrambling on day one.” Co-host Hoda Kotb bragged in a tease of a “ough rollout,” “troubled launch,” and “chaotic start to the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign, marred by technical glitches on Twitter.” ![]()
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