Republican Ron DeSantis officially announced his candidacy for President of the United States via a Twitter conversation with Elon Musk, launching his own battle expected to be fierce against Donald Trump, but not his excesses.
And the choice of this format to launch a campaign is unusual. And Elon Musk expressed his satisfaction with this option.
“This is the first time we will be testing something like this on a social network,” he said.
He promised “a conversation that includes Q&A without a real-time script.” However, the billionaire, known for his vague political stance, made it clear that this conversation could not be considered a sponsorship.
The Florida governor is Donald Trump’s top contender for the Republican nomination.
The winner of this November 2024 primary will run against the Democratic nominee, most likely Joe Biden.
DeSantis gained popularity by taking an ultra-conservative stance on education or immigration.
He has turned his state into a laboratory of conservative ideas in the name of fighting what he considers to be “spurious common sense.”
But his path to the White House is full of obstacles. The governor, whom a large number of conservatives pinned hopes on in the presidential election after his re-election in Florida in November 2022, is ahead of Donald Trump, officially nominated since November 16, by a wide margin. 2022, according to a number of opinion polls.
