I am disgusted by the Desantis bashing by Trump and Comp and by the Right wing “Alt” media in general

They are going after him harder than any Leftwing media ever went after Trump IMO !

Trying to destroy the reputation of the greatest Governor that ever Governed any State anywhere is Insane

I personally would still rather see Trump as the Nominee but would certainly NOT be upset if it were Desantis.

This man has single handedly done more for our side than anyone these last couple of years including Trump.

Let him be…let him Run . maybe he is more connected to the Rinos than Trump. Maybe they want him to win . Maybe they can control him better than they can Trump …But He is the real deal and deserves the respect of out community. LOOK at what he has accomplished in the free State of Florida

Turns out a lot of people love him …

here is what happened at his announcement on Twitter Spaces

The Right wing media is portraying this as a massive failure…well there was such an overwhelming demand to watch this on twitter Spaces it crashed !

Eating Your Own is NOT a good Political Strategy ! Disgusting treatment !!!

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Last night’s high-tech debut of Governor DeSantis’s official presidential candidacy on a Twitter space launched in a shower of sparks, as the weight of nearly 700,000 attending users made Twitter’s supercomputer repeatedly crash. After about five minutes of rebooting, Twitter opened up a new space with carefully throttled access, starting at about 130,000, and successfully dialed it up to just under 300,000 attendees before the event was over.

When it came, the announcement itself seemed anti-climatic. Everyone knew it was coming, and we’ve all talked about it for what seems like months.

Apparently both DeSantis’ original Twitter space (700K) and the replacement one (300K) exceeded the highest number of concurrent users in a Twitter space, ever:

The glitches annoyed users trying to log on, but delighted democrats. Euphoric leftists held a field day over the startup glitches. For instance, Joe Biden, whose own brain is glitching out, giddily tweeted “This link works!”

Technically, everything went fine once the new space opened. DeSantis read a prepared speech announcing his candidacy along with a short stump speech. I don’t know. Maybe DeSantis is better unscripted, or maybe a Twitter space is a bad venue for scripted reading, but while the intro was solid, not exactly bad, it was maybe … a little flat and emotionally unsatisfying.

It was a good speech. It was punctuated with classic conservative punchlines like “merit must trump identity politics,” “truth needs to be our foundation,” and “common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue.” The Governor described solid conservative positions on all the issues, from the border (build the wall), to the military (delete ideology), to pruning the administrative state (we’ll bring the admin state to heel).

“We need the courage to lead, and the strength to win,” DeSantis said, promising that, if nominated, he WOULD win the election.

So overall, the speech was okay. But the space got a lot more interesting once moderators began to let users ask questions.

I am 99% sure the question-askers were pre-picked. Despite that, it did not seem contrived. Although the questioners were all key DeSantis allies, they were also real people, not typical political or media types. In that sense, it was more like a town hall, but with recognizable citizens. For example, first up was Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who publicly advised DeSantis during the pandemic, allowing the Governor to say he was ‘following the science.’ Another question-asker was anti-CRT ‘thought leader’ Chris Rufo.

DeSantis was at his best during the Q&A portion. He is exciting and passionate when he’s unscripted and when he discusses the issues he feels strongly about. Overall, it was good to hear the Governor speak and be allowed the time to give his complete answers to questions without being interrupted by an interviewer with a narrative bone to pick.

I suspect this live-event format will rapidly replace the traditional news interview format, which has devolved into a painful charade when it involves democrat politicians, and a pugilistic exercise in frustration when it comes to conservatives.

The bottom line is, nobody cares what barking reporters want to ask.

DeSantis performs well sparring with hostile media. He might not be quite as entertaining to watch as Trump when verbally jousting with reporters, but he’s close. So, in spite of the rough start, I think the DeSantis campaign would do well to hold more of these live, unscripted online events, bypassing corporate media, and then letting DeSantis mix it up with a few woke reporters every so often.

The DeSantis campaign later reported the event was a solid fundraiser, which after all is the most important measurement of whether it was successful.

Here’s the recorded version, if you’d like to listen (about an hour):

https://twitter.com/jchilders98/status/1661500249351790593

Finally, as I’d guessed, Twitter did well, too:

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