Sorry, Not Sorry: The Ron DeSantis Twitter 'Fiasco' Proves He Can Win – 19FortyFive

“DeSantis can’t even do a proper campaign launch!” That was how one Trump Campaign official exclaimed in an off-the-record conversation shortly after the unique way that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced his presidential bid.  Throughout the press, Trump Campaign surrogates and critics of DeSantis piled on the purportedly “botched” presidential announcement that was done exclusively on Twitter, along with the new owner of Twitter, the tech billionaire, Elon Musk, and tech investor, David Sacks.  Bugging Out One of the biggest complaints among those who tuned in via Twitter Spaces to listen to the Florida governor make his announcement was that the site crashed multiple times, cutting listeners off from key points of the governor’s address. Musk himself admitted that the Twitter servers had difficulty handling the increased demand from users to listen to the now-historic Twitter Spaces chat.  The Trump Campaign’s take on the matter is bizarre—and one that eerily aligns with the criticisms of the mainstream media, a frequent target of the Trump Campaign.  But the frequent bugs that disrupted DeSantis’ announcement are indicative of something far more interesting from the perspective of campaign watchers like me. The fact that the powerful Twitter servers kept crashing was because so
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