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Well, it must have seemed like a good idea at the time.<\/p>\n

Ron DeSantis launching<\/a> his presidential campaign through a friendly Twitter chat with Elon Musk \u2013 what could go wrong?<\/p>\n

After a minute or so, the whole thing crashed, and for the next half hour, as their voices would come back and then quickly cut off, media pundits posted tweets filled with mockery and ridicule.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Musk, it had to be a humiliation as his hype balloon burst,<\/a> the servers crashing under the weight of a half-million users.<\/p>\n

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DeSantis had to be livid, knowing full well that the botched event would become a metaphor for his White House kickoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Finally, after an excruciating half hour, Twitter got a livestream up \u2013 but lost half its audience in the process.<\/p>\n

Once their voices could actually be heard again, DeSantis and Musk heaped praise on each other \u2013 and spent much of their time bashing the media.<\/p>\n

The governor praised the billionaire as a free-speech advocate. Musk hailed DeSantis for reopening Florida during the pandemic despite fierce criticism from the press.<\/p>\n

Musk told DeSantis there were “no shortage of hit pieces on you in the press.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The legacy media, these corporations, they\u2019re in their little bubble,” the governor agreed.<\/p>\n

“They have become totally hysterical,” Musk chimed in.<\/p>\n

Asked about the banning of books in Florida schools, the governor called that a “hoax\u2026What you see is the left and the media colluding on this.”<\/p>\n

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Musk did allow a few other questions, but all from conservative DeSantis supporters.<\/p>\n

The session amounted to a pretty robust endorsement from the man who runs Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter and has soured on Donald Trump.<\/a><\/p>\n

DeSantis avoids most of the mainstream media, which he views with disdain, so a conversation with Musk, as opposed to a journalist,<\/a> was low risk (except for the technical side). After that he appeared on Fox with former Republican congressman Trey Gowdy.<\/p>\n

If there is a downside to the Musk embrace, it\u2019s that DeSantis may be asked about the owner\u2019s most controversial or offensive tweets. But that would seem a small price to pay.<\/p>\n

Perhaps DeSantis advisers persuaded him that a speech at a rally would fall flat, since the Florida governor isn\u2019t known as a great orator, and a smaller event would have to involve a lot of handshaking along a rope line.<\/p>\n

Trump said on his social media site that DeSantis “needs a personality transplant,” and in a statement his campaign said:\u00a0“Announcing on Twitter is perfect for Ron DeSantis. This way he doesn\u2019t have to interact with people and the media can\u2019t ask him any questions.”<\/p>\n

The Washington Post,<\/a> with a definite viewpoint, said in a news story: “The launch underscores DeSantis\u2019s embrace of conservative influencers as he looks to bypass the mainstream media he derides. It also aligns him with one of the world\u2019s richest people \u2014 a polarizing figure who shares DeSantis\u2019s disdain for the media and liberal critics and has quickly become one of the most prominent, provocative voices on the right.”<\/p>\n

But National Review says:<\/a> “While Elon Musk may be utterly loathed by activist left-wingers, he is not thought of nearly so negatively by the country as a whole. To the greater public, he\u2019s the richest man in the world, who makes electric cars, launches rockets, and recently bought a social media website. That is all. They are not as upset about \u2018Twitter Blue\u2019 as the Left seems to be. They don\u2019t even know what it is.”<\/p>\n

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DeSantis is widely acknowledged to be the principal challenger to Trump, but the media have really turned on him as the former president has built a 30- to 40-point lead in the national polls. The DeSantis camp believes that national polls<\/a> are meaningless and that their man has high favorables in the early states.<\/p>\n

As Rich Lowry writes in the New York Times<\/a> <\/a>\u2013 under the headline “He\u2019s Not Dead Yet” \u2013 “It\u2019s never a good sign when political analysts are writing \u2018What Went Wrong?\u2019 stories about your presidential campaign before it\u2019s announced.”<\/p>\n

The piece says DeSantis “still has the makings of a strong campaign,” with ample fundraising, but that the governor has to find a way to tell a personal story and not just talk policy.<\/p>\n

Ron DeSantis did talk a lot about policy \u2013 that is, when he finally got to talk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/media-buzz\/desantis-musk-bash-media-after-embarrassment-twitter-chat-crashing <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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