Ron DeSantis’s Twitter campaign launch with Elon Musk starts with glitches and silence – follow live

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Ron DeSantis announced his presidential bid in a glitchy, chaotic forum on Elon Musk’s Twitter.

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Joe Biden commemorated the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, and called for gun control measures, one year after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school.

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Meanwhile, in the Capitol, negotiations continue over raising the debt ceiling, with no breakthrough yet apparent.

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Donald Trump’s lawyers have requested a meeting with attorney general Merrick Garland and aired a litany of grievances about special counsel Jack Smith and other prosecutors.

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Texas’s Republican-dominated legislature appears to be moving to curb political power in its most-populous county, which is run by Democrats.

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In a brief speech at the White House, the president asked: “How many more parents will live their worst nightmare before we stand up to the gun lobby?”

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He and first woman Jill Biden stood in entrance of 21 burning candles to honor the victims of the college capturing. “It’s time to make our voices heard, not as Democrats or as Republicans however as associates, as neighbors as dad and mom, as fellow Individuals,” he mentioned.

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The president supplied his empathy to the family and friends of those that have been killed. “Whereas everybody’s ache is completely different, we like a lot of you’ve some understanding of what it’s prefer to lose a baby – on a couple of event,” he mentioned. “They’ll by no means be gone out of your coronary heart, they’ll all the time be a part of you.”

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The Florida governor is about to join Twitter owner Elon Musk in a live audio event on the site, to officially announce his bid for president.

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The conversation will be streamed on Twitter Spaces, a dedicated audio streaming feature on the social media platform. Ahead of the event, DeSantis is teasing a new slogan on his campaign website: “We’ve only just begun to fight for our Great American Comeback.”

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Ron DeSantis has just taken a small but significant step to smooth his run at the White House: he’s signed a bill repealing an element of Florida’s “resign to run” law that would have prevented him continuing to serve as governor while campaigning for higher office.

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According to the Tampa Bay Times, DeSantis put his signature on the bill just hours after filing the official paperwork earlier Wednesday formalizing his campaign for the Republican party’s 2024 presidential nomination.

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Last month, compliant Republicans in the state legislature passed a measure that said the resign to run restriction would no longer apply to those running for president or vice-president.

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DeSantis, who was reelected Florida’s governor in November, would otherwise have had to resign from that office because his term would have overlapped the start of the next presidential period beginning in January 2025.

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It’s the second bill this month DeSantis has signed to ease himself into the campaign. On 11 May he signed a measure reducing transparency over political spending and his travel arrangements.

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Republican lawmakers and DeSantis cited security concerns to justify the law. But Democrats and transparency advocates said it was a brazen effort to keep DeSantis’s travel secret.

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“Where a governor goes, who travels with the governor, who the governor meets with is all information of critical importance to the public. Who is influencing the governor? We need to know that,” Barbara Petersen, executive director of the Florida center for government accountability, said at the time.

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Read more:

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis has formally filed paperwork to start his presidential campaign, the Associated Press reports, pitting him against Donald Trump and a host of other Republicans in the competition for the party’s presidential nomination in 2024.

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Polls indicate DeSantis is in second place among Republican voters, but with a wide gulf between him and the former president. DeSantis is expected to publicly launch the campaign in an appearance later today on Twitter with its billionaire owner Elon Musk.

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Democrats are calling on Congress – and specifically Republicans – to tighten firearm access one year after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Joe Bidenwill speak about the tragedy at 3.30pm this afternoon and also call on the GOP to support stricter gun regulations. Meanwhile, in the Capitol, negotiations continue over raising the debt ceiling, with no breakthrough yet apparent.

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Here’s what else has happened today so far:

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• Donald Trump’s lawyers have requested a meeting with attorney general Merrick Garland and aired a litany of grievances about special counsel Jack Smith and other prosecutors.

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• Ron DeSantis will later today announce the start of his presidential campaign, and spend big on door-knocking in early voting states.

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• Texas’s Republican-dominated legislatureappears to be moving to curb political power in its most-populous county, which is run by Democrats.

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In his speech this afternoon marking one year since a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Joe Biden will call on Republicans to support measures to address gun violence, a White House official said.

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“The president will remember those lost in Uvalde and reiterate his call for Republicans in Congress to act and help stop the epidemic of gun violence that has become the number one killer of kids in America,” the official said of Biden’s address, which is scheduled for 3.30pm today.

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The official noted that since the shooting in Uvalde and another shortly before it in Buffalo, New York, the president has signed a modest gun control measure passed by Congress, and “continued to implement two dozen executive actions to help reduce gun violence and keep weapons of war out of dangerous hands – and he has consistently called on Republicans in Congress to take action.”

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“From universal background checks, to requiring safe storage of guns, to ending immunity from liability for gun manufacturers, to banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, the President has called for Congress to enact commonsense policies that Americans support,” the official continued.

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Top Democrats including vice-president Kamala Harris and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries have called for stricter laws to address gun violence on the one-year anniversary of the killings of 21 students and teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

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“Nevaeh. Jacklyn. Makenna. Jose. Eliahna. Uziyah. Amerie Jo. Xavier. Jayce. Tess. Maranda. Alithia. Annabell. Maite. Alexandria. Layla. Jailah. Eliahna. Rojelio. And their teachers, Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles. Nineteen children and two educators who should be here with us today. They should still have birthdays to celebrate, graduations to plan, careers and lives to look forward to. Instead, one year ago today, they were killed in their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in a mass shooting carried out with a weapon of war,” Harris said in a statement.

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“Over the past year, so many Uvalde families have channeled their anguish into advocacy,” she continued. “Together, they demand that we act to save lives. With their help, President Biden signed the most significant gun safety legislation in 30 years and implemented important executive actions in the months since. But more must be done. Today, Doug and I pray for the people of Uvalde. And we urge leaders in Congress and in state legislatures to meet this heartbreaking moment not just with words, but with action.”

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Jeffries was more forceful, accusing Republicans in a statement of blocking meaningful action to stop mass shootings and gun violence at large.

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“House Democrats will continue to fight for commonsense gun safety legislation, like universal criminal background checks and an assault weapons ban. Extreme MAGA Republicans have shown that they are willing to flood our communities with weapons of war that have been consistently used to shred innocent children, including in Nashville, Tennessee earlier this year. The gun violence epidemic is unacceptable, unconscionable and un-American,” he said.

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Attorneys for Donald Trump have asked attorney general Merrick Garland for a meeting, saying the former president is being “treated unfairly” and accusing special counsel Jack Smith and other prosecutors of perpetrating “ongoing injustice”.

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Garland last year appointed Smith to investigate Trump’s involvement in the January 6 insurrection, the efforts to overturn the 2020 election result and the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Smith is finishing up his investigation into the government materials federal agents retrieved from Trump’s south Florida resort last August, and will recommend to Garland whether charges are warranted.

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In the letter to the attorney general, Trump’s attorneys John P Rowley and James M Trusty take the tone of grievance and persecution familiar to anyone who has read the ex-president’s missives.

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“No President of the United States has ever, in the history of our country, been baselessly investigated in such an outrageous and unlawful fashion,” it reads.

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Backed by a Super Pac and its $200m budget, the New York Times reported today that Ron DeSantis’s campaign will deploy thousands of workers to knock on doors in early Republican primary voting states – repeatedly.

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The plan is for these workers to visit the doors of every potential DeSantis voter in South Carolina, Nevada and New Hampshire at least four times, and five times in Iowa, whose caucuses typically kick off the Republican nomination process. The campaign is going as far as to set up a boot camp on the outskirts of Iowa’s capital, Des Moines, to train volunteers, as Ted Cruz did when he defeated Trump in the 2016 Republican contest in the state.

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Here’s more from the Times’s report:

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Top officials with the pro-DeSantis group, a super PAC called Never Back Down, provided their most detailed account yet of their battle plan to aid Mr. DeSantis, whom they believe they can sell as the only candidate to take on – and win – the cultural fights that are definitional for the Republican Party in 2024.

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The group said it expected to have an overall budget of at least $200 million, including more than $80 million to be transferred from an old DeSantis state political account, for the daunting task of vaulting the Florida governor past former President Donald J. Trump, who has established himself as the dominant early front-runner.

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Mr. DeSantis is set to enter the presidential race on Wednesday in a live audio conversation on Twitter, and the super PAC’s enormous cash reserves are expected to be among the few advantages that Mr. DeSantis has in the race.

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The group is already taking on many tasks often reserved for the campaign itself: securing endorsements in early primary states, sending mailers, organizing on campuses, running television ads, raising small donations for the campaign in an escrow account and working behind the scenes to build crowds for the governor’s events. Hiring is underway in 18 states and officials said plans were in the works to assemble various pro-DeSantis coalitions, such as for voters who are veterans or those focused on issues like abortion, guns or agriculture.

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“No one has ever contemplated the scale of this organization or operation, let alone done it,” said Chris Jankowski, the group’s chief executive. “This has just never even been dreamed up.”

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In Iowa, the group has opened a boot camp on the outskirts of Des Moines, giving the facility the code name “Fort Benning,” after the old Army training outpost, with 189 graduates of an eight-day training program the first wave of an organizing army to follow. Door knocking begins on Wednesday in New Hampshire.

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The endeavor echoes the “Camp Cruz” that Senator Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign set up near Des Moines.

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. The biggest presidential campaign announcement since Donald Trump’s entry to the race will happen this evening, when Florida governor Ron DeSantis officially throws his hat into the ring for the Republican nomination. He’s chosen an unusual venue to make the bid official: Twitter, where he will appear at 6pm Eastern Time in a live event alongside the social media network’s owner and budding conservative maven Elon Musk. He’ll do an interview with Fox News after that.

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DeSantis has been building up to this moment for months by raising funds – a super Pac supporting his campaign plans to work with a $200m budget, the New York Times reported today – egging on GOP lawmakers in Florida to pass laws that he’s sure to campaign on and insinuating that he’s a better bet to beat Joe Biden thanTrump. If polls are to be believed, voters do not believe him. The former president is far and away the leader in most surveys, with DeSantis a distant second. He still has time to turn it around, and you can bet that will be his first priority after today.

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Here’s what else is going on:

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• Debt ceiling negotiations between Biden and Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy are continuing. The situation remains broadly the same as yesterday: the two sides have yet to come to a deal, and the US government could default on its debt by as soon as 1 June.

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• Biden will at 3.30pm deliver a speech marking the one-year anniversary of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

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• White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre briefs reporters at 2.15pm.

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• Ron DeSantis introduced his presidential bid in a glitchy, chaotic discussion board on Elon Musk’s Twitter.

• Joe Biden commemorated the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, and known as for gun management measures, one yr after a gunman killed 19 college students and two academics at an elementary college.

• In the meantime, within the Capitol, negotiations proceed over elevating the debt ceiling, with no breakthrough but obvious.

• Donald Trump’s attorneys have requested a gathering with legal professional normal Merrick Garland and aired a litany of grievances about particular counsel Jack Smith and different prosecutors.

• Texas’s Republican-dominated legislature seems to be shifting to curb political energy in its most-populous county, which is run by Democrats.

Biden marked Uvalde anniversary with a name for gun management

In a quick speech on the White Home, the president requested: “What number of extra dad and mom will reside their worst nightmare earlier than we stand as much as the gun foyer?”

He and first woman Jill Biden stood in entrance of 21 burning candles to honor the victims of the college capturing. “It’s time to make our voices heard, not as Democrats or as Republicans however as associates, as neighbors as dad and mom, as fellow Individuals,” he mentioned.

The president supplied his empathy to the family and friends of those that have been killed. “Whereas everybody’s ache is completely different, we like a lot of you’ve some understanding of what it’s prefer to lose a baby – on a couple of event,” he mentioned. “They’ll by no means be gone out of your coronary heart, they’ll all the time be a part of you.”

And Elon Musk’s insistence that the glitches have been because of DeSantis’s reputation has not been significantly convincing.

BuzzFeed exploding the watermelon hit 820,000 concurrent viewers in 2016 https://t.co/EKtwBBV2j6

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) May 24, 2023

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We had extra folks be part of once I performed Amongst Us 👾 https://t.co/zBoDCM0XmL

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 24, 2023

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The launch is already being panned, together with by Fox Information and the Day by day Mail.

Fox Information, which was snubbed for the announcement, goes after DeSantis aggressively: pic.twitter.com/roObJO8Ac1

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May 24, 2023

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Day by day Mail proper now: pic.twitter.com/PNRMlsqJnu

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May 24, 2023

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Musk ended by welcoming some other candidates who need to undergo the identical rigamarole to come back by means of. And that’s a wrap!

DeSantis can also be anticipated on Fox Information tonight. “PROGRAMMING ALERT: Need to really see and listen to Ron DeSantis? Tune into Fox Information at 8pm ET,” the community splashed on its web site.

DeSantis ended by talking about Bitcoin and ESG investments – area of interest subjects which are more likely to lose many followers.

Earlier this month, DeSantis signed a invoice barring officers from investing public cash to advertise environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives. It was one of many farthest-reaching efforts by a Republican lawmaker to cease sustainable investing efforts.

DeSantis spoke on schooling and immigration – two realms by which he has pushed unprecedented, authoritarian measures as governor.

On schooling:

“There has not been a single ebook banned within the state of Florida,” mentioned DeSantis, who typically repeats this lie.

In line with Pen America, “In 2023, to adjust to new legal guidelines, some Florida colleges have been directed to empty libraries and canopy classroom bookshelves. Academics in Manatee county and Duval county have been told they needed to have every ebook of their school rooms reviewed earlier than they might return. Martin county eliminated dozens of books after they have been objected to by one particular person.”

On immigration:

“You should shut the border down,” DeSantis mentioned, vowing to comply with although on his anti-immigrant insurance policies and go additional than Donald Trump had been capable of.

As my colleague Richard Luscome has reported, DeSantis has made hardline, anti-immigrant insurance policies a cornerstone of his gubernatorial coverage.

David Sacks additionally requested DeSantis about Disney, which has change into the Florida governor’s prime foe.

Disney had “actually been outed as making an attempt to inject issues of intercourse within the programming for the youth”, DeSantis mentioned. The governor’s beef with the company began when Disney, one among Florida’s greatest employers, publicly opposed his so-called “don’t say homosexual” ban. He retaliated by seizing management of Disney’s self-governing particular district, and threatened to construct a state jail close to the world.

This odd launch to DeSantis’s marketing campaign has partly change into an commercial for Twitter.

Musk and Sacks performed off the glitches on Twitter as DeSantis “breaking the web”. It’s unclear why Twitter didn’t anticipate 500,000 listeners for a presidential announcement.

After taking swipes on the media and the NAACP (which not too long ago issued a journey advisory for Florida underneath DeSantis’s management), the right-wing governor talked up Twitter.

“A part of what Twitter is standing for is folks ought to be uncovered to completely different viewpoints,” mentioned DeSantis, who has been working to ban viewpoints in school rooms throughout his state. He signed a invoice that prohibits public college academics in Florida from holding classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender id.

DeSantis additionally known as making his Covid-era insurance policies a ‘lonely’ time when he needed to make completely different selections than the remainder of the nation.

The governor went towards public well being steerage to finish masks mandates early, encompass himself with anti-vaccine advocates and different controversial stances. In 2021, Florida noticed record-breaking surges in Covid infections, which DeSantis dismissed as “seasonal”. It was his aggressive defiance of pandemic insurance policies that helped him rise to nationwide prominence, as he capitalized on anti-mask and anti-vaccine fervor rising throughout the US.

In a brand new Twitter Areas stream, this one with notably fewer listeners, Ron DeSantis has lastly begun to talk, studying off ready remarks.

“I’m operating for president of the USA to guide our nice American comeback,” he mentioned, reiterating strains from his announcement video. “There isn’t any substitute for victory … we should look ahead, not backwards,” he mentioned.

After Elon Musk laid off scores of staff who saved the social media platform operating, glitches and errors have change into considerably commonplace on Twitter.

Ron DeSantis has but to say a phrase, however amid all of the suggestions, Musk mentioned, with greater than 400,000 listeners on the stream: “The servers are straining considerably.”

Joe Biden’s social media crew appears to be having a little bit of enjoyable with all of it:

This hyperlink works: https://t.co/9PzIJkseYI

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 24, 2023

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The occasion is off to a glitchy begin …

The audio line has dangerous suggestions. “We received so many individuals right here that we’re type of melting the servers, which is an efficient signal,” mentioned David Sacks, the Republican donor and pal of Elon Musk who’s moderating the audio occasion.

Some have reported that their Twitter apps are crashing.

Ron DeSantis is about to make his presidential announcement on Twitter

The Florida governor is about to hitch Twitter proprietor Elon Musk in a reside audio occasion on the positioning, to formally announce his bid for president.

The dialog shall be streamed on Twitter Areas, a devoted audio streaming function on the social media platform. Forward of the occasion, DeSantis is teasing a brand new slogan on his marketing campaign web site: “We’ve solely simply begun to combat for our Nice American Comeback.”

I’m operating for president to guide our Nice American Comeback. pic.twitter.com/YmkWkLaVDg

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) May 24, 2023

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