Ron DeSantis Really Is Running For President; Florida Governor Makes It Official Before Glitchy Elon Musk Twitter Sit-Down

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(Updated with more details) Ron DeSantis is running for President. Making it official today after months of proxy campaigning, the Florida Governor unveiled his 2024 White House ambitions just before a scheduled Twitter hosted interview with the social media company’s owner Elon Musk.

Earlier Wednesday, DeSantis filed the paperwork necessary with the Federal Election Commission to begin his bid. Already a criticized unconventional choice, the Twitter Spaces conversation with Musk was hit with glitches leaving many listeners unable to tune in, so to speak.

Over 500,000 users experienced crashes or audio problems from the start. Within about 25-minutes the whole experiment seemed to not only crash but burn, and was abandoned as Twitter servers overloaded due to demand, according to Musk.

A few minutes beforehand, it was actually quite easy to hear and see where DeSantis was coming from in a more conventional format. “Truth must be our foundation,” DeSantis exclaimed in a video that just dropped online with a clear thwack at Donald Trump. “I’m running for president to lead our great American comeback,” the governor added with Trump tones and Trump graphics, as you can see below: I’m running for president to lead our Great American Comeback.