Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is trying to focus on the future and leave behind the bad image that emerged from an embarrassing incident that occurred early in his presidential campaign. Announcement of his candidacy via the Twitter platform was marred by connection problems so he had difficulty communicating with his supporters.
On Thursday (25/5), the governor announced plans for a brief visit to three states next week. He is scheduled to campaign on Tuesday (30/5) and Wednesday (31/5) in Iowa before continuing on to New Hampshire on Thursday (1/6) and South Carolina on Friday (2/6).
DeSantis faced questions over his chaotic nomination announcement event when he toured conservative media on Thursday.
The 44-year-old governor launched his campaign Wednesday in an online discussion with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, but the audio stream at the event experienced repeated interruptions.
DeSantis privately admitted that the situation was unwanted and a distraction from the main focus of the show.
DeSantis’ supporters saw the chaos in the announcement of his candidacy as an unwanted distraction. However, there is confidence that this will not have long-term political ramifications.
On Thursday, DeSantis’ campaign said it had raised $8.2 million within 24 hours of the announcement of the Florida governor’s candidacy as a presidential candidate. This amount is very large and exceeds the amount achieved by President Joe Biden’s campaign team in the same period.
DeSantis describes himself as the only reliable Republican candidate to run against Donald Trump, who currently leads the Republican presidential candidate survey and has a large base of supporters.
But Trump is now faced with a slew of problems, including threats of lawsuits and can’t distance himself from complaining about his 2020 election loss. (jm/lt/rs)
