Today Ron DeSantis will launch his challenge to Trump together with Elon Musk
Ron DeSantis will announce his 2024 presidential campaign in a Twitter Spaces livestream with Elon Musk Wednesday night, Fox News reported on Twitter and Elon Musk confirmed with a retweet.
BREAKING: @FoxNews confirms Florida Governor @RonDeSantis will announce his 2024 Presidential run tomorrow night, 6pm ET in a Twitter Spaces interview with @elonmusk .
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 23, 2023
And as Bill notes, this is RonDeSantis.com right now…
DeSantis — widely regarded as Donald Trump's only real contender for the Republican nomination — will speak with Musk at 6 p.m. Wednesday and his campaign will kick off with an official video that will be uploaded to his site.
As a reminder, Musk said in November that he would support DeSantis if he ran for president.
“My preference for the 2024 presidency is a reasonable and centrist person. I had hoped this would be the case with the Biden administration, but have been disappointed so far,” Musk said on Twitter.
“Yes,” he replied in a tweet when asked if he would back DeSantis in 2024.
“As a reminder, I was a major supporter of the Obama-Biden presidency and voted (reluctantly) for Biden rather than Trump,” the Twitter owner said.
However, speaking earlier at the WSJ CEO Council Summit, Musk denied any speculation that he would endorse DeSantis:
- *MUSK SAYS HE HAS NO INTENDED TO ENDORSE ANY PARTICULAR CANDIDATE
- *MUSK: DESANTIS WILL MAKE “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” ON TWITTER THE NEXT DAY
However, Musk will hardly give DeSantis decisive support, even if he certainly won't do anything in favor of Trump, also because the former president has not returned to Twitter and is engaged in his own media Truth.
Trump, who currently leads DeSantis in head-to-head polls, has spent weeks attacking DeSantis in Truth Social posts and commercials on national television. The commercials attack DeSantis for supporting, among other things, a national sales tax when he was in Congress.
Picking DeSantis for the launch event is another twist in a tumultuous year for the media landscape; weeks earlier, Fox News parted ways with Tucker Carlson, cable television's most popular host. Carlson later stated that he wants to take his show to Twitter.
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