Elon Musk’s Twitter Space Crashes Ruining Ron DeSantis’ 2024 Campaign Launch — Live

Mr DeSantis was mocked for his voice, after the Twitter Spaces event eventually faded out due to lack of technical issues.

“Now that Space has worked long enough for DeSantis to consistently deliver Dissent, all I see are tweets about how annoying his voice is,” Bobby Lewis Tweeted,

DNC member Thomas Kennedy couple: “Holy s*** this is the worst campaign launch I’ve ever seen. Embarrassing technical difficulties and including DeSantis’s jarring with his annoying nasal voice about the most niche hyper online right wing issues that will freak out your average voter and feels isolated.

Donald Trump Jr. echoed his father’s derision of former Florida governor Jeb Bush during the 2016 campaign, saying that “DeSantis is making JEB! See the high energy now”.

Memes began to be shared in the chaos of the Twitter space, including an edited video of Mr. Trump shoving Mr. DeSantis to the ground.

Ben Collins of NBC News tweeted on Wednesday night that “David Sachs made a ridiculous claim that Ron DeSantis’ Twitter space was the largest group that ‘ever got online. ‘” There are 100,000 people in this thing.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, “When I played between us, more people joined us.” wrote,

A Fox News push alert stated: “DeSantis’ much-hyped announcement on Twitter is a disaster.”

Donald Trump joined in the joke, writing: “Rob, ‘My red button is bigger, better, stronger, and working (true!), yours is not! (My conversation with North Korea’s Kim Jung Un) According to, going to be my friend soon!).”

Amid technical issues and crashing of Ron DeSantis’ Twitter space, the Florida gubernatorial campaign announced “a bunch of people are just thanking Elon Musk and complaining about Twitter,” according to NBC News. ben collins Tweeted,

“I have never met Elon Musk, but I am one of your biggest fans. I own a Tesla,” Congressman Thomas Massey said during the audio-only event.

Mr DeSantis pushed back on an NAACP advisory warning travelers that Florida is “openly hostile” towards black people, people of color and LGBT+ people because of its laws.

“We are the number one state in terms of net migration and this has happened every year since I became governor,” he claimed. “We just had the highest quarter for tourism in the history of the state of Florida. And our view is that we want everyone to be successful regardless of the color of their skin.”

“We do not divide people based on race. At the same time, it is worth pointing out that we have more black-owned businesses in Florida than any other state in the nation. There are more African American-led state agencies under my administration than at any other time, but with us, you know, they’re there because of merit, not because we’re trying to do identity politics. Added.

“And if you want to look at education, black students in Florida perform much higher than black students in other states. We rank number three in fourth grade reading and number two in fourth grade math among our black student population. And oh, by the way, the head of the NAACP lives in Florida, and a lot of his board members have been pouring out on social media during my governorship, Florida vacations where they’re having a great time,” he claimed.

Mr. DeSantis appeared to claim that if he won the GOP nomination, he was certain to win the general election.

He asked listeners to “set their clocks” to “high noon” for 20 January 2025 for his inauguration.

The governor also rebuked Mr. Trump, saying that promises on policy are meaningless if Republicans keep losing.

President Joe Biden mocked Ron DeSantis during a Twitter Space event with CEO Elon Musk during his 2024 campaign kickoff for governor of Florida that had technical issues.

The Twitter event, which began at 6 p.m. ET, was plagued with technical issues and audio was removed almost immediately. David Sachs, one of the event’s moderators, said the sheer number of participants was “melting down the servers”.

Mr Biden, for his part, posted a link to his donation page with a quip: “This link works.”