When did Ron DeSantis Get What He Wanted to Do? He Went To Disney, Not Like Donald Trump. And when did he Come to Florida?
Perhaps one day we’ll say something similar about Mr. DeSantis’s candidacy. The strengths that made Mr. DeSantis so promising after the election appear to have stood him in good stead today. He is still appealing to a broad spectrum of Republican Party members. His favorability ratings remain strong — stronger than Mr. Trump’s — even though his standing against Mr. Trump has deteriorated in head-to-head polling. He is still defined by the issues, like the fight against Woke and coronavirus restrictions, that have broad appeal throughout his party. There is a chance that it could be a contender again in January.
Why did he let himself becomebogged down with a long and torturous feud with Disney when he should have been focused on being Trump? Yes, the corporation publicly opposed his “Don’t Say Gay” bill, and that must have annoyed him. He’s easily annoyed. The legislation was always going to be passed, and he got what he wanted, so he didn’t have to make a show of his contempt for Disney. He wanted, well, drama. That rationale is also included.
Ron DeSantis is seen as a more electable alternative than Donald Trump, so why did he sign a ban on most abortions in Florida after six weeks of pregnancy? That’s manna for the Christian conservatives who matter in Republican primaries, but it’s a liability with the moderates and independents who matter after that point. It steps hard on DeSantis’s argument that he’s the version of Trump who can actually beat President Biden. It flattens that pitch into a sad little pancake.
Mr. DeSantis frequently referred to his blue-collar roots. It has long been known that college educated Republicans are more loyal to Mr. Trump than the uneducated ones who support him. The introduction night showed why that is the case.
The Comeback of Donald J. Musk: When Social Media and Politics Collided with Conservatives in the Light of a Republican Presidential Campaign
He could mount a comeback, which doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll come back. The opportunity to be televised live on multiple networks and use the feature of Twitpic is missing from his campaign’s decision to announce his bid on twitter tonight. And even if his campaign is ultimately run differently than it has been so far, it’s not clear that even a perfectly run Republican campaign would defeat Donald J. Trump — at least if the former president survives his various legal challenges politically unscathed.
Musk has been praised by the Republicans, who have accused social media platforms of unfairly censoring conservative speech. Musk has repeatedly played into this grief by rallying behind various right-wing talking points and offering up troves of internal Twitter documents as evidence that the company’s previous leaders were bias against conservatives. Tucker Carlson and The Daily Wire moved their shows to the social networking site after Carlson was fired from Fox News.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had a campaign announcement on audio feedback and technical difficulties on the social media platform.
Musk’s popularity with the GOP could serve as a boon to DeSantis whose poll numbers amongst Republican primary voters have fallen over the last few weeks. The Morning Consult survey shows that Trump surpasses DeSantis as a GOP primary voter.
The Digital Bill of Rights that would ban state and government officials from colluding with social media companies would be signed soon by the new Florida governor, Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis eventually did launch his campaign, but the event was mired with problems from the very beginning — and DeSantis didn’t manage to use the initial Space hosted by Musk. The Space was filled with feedback sounds before quickly going silent, when David Sacks, a venture capitalist and former PayPal product lead, first unmuted himself to start the talk. The accounts of DeSantis and Sacks popped in and out of the initial room, muting and unmuting themselves before leaving entirely.
“Man, I think we melted the internet there,” Sacks said in a separate Space he created with his account after the first one shuttered. I believe it crashed due to the fact that a half million people in a room by an account with over 100 million followers is unprecedented. But with my meager followership it seems to be working much better.”
As of publication, it’s not entirely clear what went wrong, but Musk (one of the only people to actually speak in the first Space) chalked the problems up to overloaded servers. More than 600,000 users were tuned in a few minutes before the Musk-hosted room ended.
The technically challenged result obscured some of Mr. DeSantis arguments, and made it difficult for him to attract donors. It was not a great first impression for a candidate with a promise of competence. Both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump mocked the event.
His aides said Mr. DeSantis raised $1 million in an hour, a sizable amount but far from the record for a presidential kickoff, with no details provided about how many individual donors gave small contributions.
The Biden campaign was trying to get people to check out donation pages on the Biden website for people who search for terms likeDeSantis disaster andDeSantis flop.
The problems with the university and the ideological capture: Alternative accreditation regimes for the U.S. Department of Education (D.E.I.)
The problems with the university and the ideological capture are not a result of a single mistake. Well, guess what? To become an accreditor, how do you do that? You’ve got to get approved by the U.S. Department of Education. So we’re going to be doing alternative accreditation regimes, where instead of saying, ‘You will only get accredited if you do D.E.I.,’ you’ll have an accreditor that will say, ‘We will not accredit you if you do D.E.I. We want a colorblind, merit-based accreditation scheme.’”
The conversation detoured into complaints about the horrors of The Atlantic and Vanity Fair magazines and into discussions of cryptocurrencies and the “de-banking” of “politically incorrect businesses.”