Ron DeSantis claims presidential marketing campaign launch ‘broke the web’ – however can he beat rival Donald Trump within the 2024 Republican race?

As presidential marketing campaign launches go, it was hardly clean.

A stay audio dialog with Twitter’s Elon Musk which did not fairly work, at the least not at the beginning.

It was silence at first because the listener rely grew: 200,000, then half 1,000,000.

Then a screech of audio suggestions. Then a whisper from the person of the second.

“Now it’s quiet…” the presidential hopeful may very well be heard saying. It actually was quiet for all these tuned in.

“Right, we are just reallocating more server capability to be able to handle the load here…” Twitter’s proprietor, Elon Musk, mentioned after a couple of extra silent moments.

“Obviously, very excited to have Governor DeSantis make this erm…” then, an abrupt lower once more.

Another silence. Then: “So I think we’re back online again.”

A touch at an incompetent candidate from the off? Well, the spin in fact was that Ron DeSantis broke the web with so many eager to tune in.

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That is, in fact, if the lower than 1,000,000 who listened stay is “so many”.

The “woke corporate media” who DeSantis loathes a lot piled in.

The New York Times referred to as it a “fiasco”. NBC News mentioned it was a “meltdown”. The US Mail Online concluded it was “Ron’s Desaster”. (sic)

Later, on extra conventional and pleasant Fox News, he brushed it off.

“We had a huge audience. It was the biggest it ever had. It did break the Twitter space. And so we’re really excited with the enthusiasm,” he advised the cable information channel.

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The half hour interview was an opportunity to put out his insurance policies which had a considerably of a Trumpian ring to them.

“We will construct the border wall…”

“Rip out Biden’s anti-American energy policies…”

“I’m against woke ideology and against the sexualization of children… [the] woke mind virus is basically a form of cultural Marxism…”

As he addressed Twitter after which Fox, downtown Miami offered only a trace of the zeal this election cycle will immediate. America is in for a experience.

“Drag queens are a bunch of paedophiles, protect your children,” one man screamed.

His “F*** Biden” flag solely gave half a clue of his politics. It wasn’t clear if Trump or DeSantis was his man.

A bunch of black males with “Blacks for Trump” banners chatted enthusiastically with a white man sporting a T-shirt with the slogan “The Proud Boys did nothing wrong”.

Nearby, chants of “All of us against DeSantis” from a liberal crowd, some flying rainbow flags, some wearing drag.

It was a snapshot of the topsy-turvy insanity of at the moment’s American politics.

Ron DeSantis is Florida’s woke warrior, elected governor by a landslide, however right here on the streets of this specific Floridian metropolis, those that worry his politics have been louder than those that like it.

If there may be one theme which will get to the center of what Ron DeSantis is all about, it is tradition wars.

His coverage for Florida and pitch for America is that the nation has misplaced its manner and must return to conventional conservative values.

Whether that is abortion – banned right here after six weeks, drag reveals – no kids allowed, or kids’s books judged to be overly sexualised – restricted now in faculties right here, his polling proves he is fashionable down right here.

Polling nationwide amongst Republican voters places him effectively behind Teflon-coated Donald Trump. But then Trump help has a ceiling. Ron DeSantis thinks he can break it.