Iowa voters don't think DeSantis' Twitter failure is real life – POLITICO

“It might mean that a lot of people were very interested,” said Gwen Sturrock, a substitute teacher in her 50s, of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ flubbed Twitter rollout. | Tom Beaumont/AP Photo SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Ron DeSantis’ campaign announcement was exploding on the launch pad, but in a sweaty warehouse of an old machine supply company in western Iowa late Wednesday night, it was hard to find anyone among some 300 voters gathered for a Tim Scott town hall who knew it happened. Let alone cared or thought it would alter the race. Not Clinton Vos, a 63-year-old agricultural sales professional who wore a cowboy hat and milled around before the town hall began — just as official Washington was still gawking at the Twitter app crashing several times amid DeSantis’ highly anticipated campaign launch. “I knew that it was going to happen today on Twitter,” he acknowledged, “but I’m not a Twitter follower.” Not Curtis Kull, a 30-year-old behavioral health professional who showed up with his girlfriend around 6 p.m. to hear Scott speak. “I did not,” he said, when asked whether he had heard the news. And not Scott Bowman, a 65-year-old UPS union steward who voted for
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