Commentary
We’ve been expecting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to announce his run for the GOP nomination for many months. It kept not happening. In these months, the peanut gallery has had a ball speculating away. We keep hearing that he “peaked too soon,” that his spat with Disney has hurt him, he is traveling too much, that he might be having fundraising issues, and so on.
It’s the kind of press prattle to keep clicks happening in the absence of real news.
But the day is finally here. And the governor has chosen an unusual method for his announcement. He will join Elon Musk on Twitter Spaces for a live discussion. This will certainly test just how scalable this platform is. I’m assuming that the live audience will top one million but we shall see….