Ron DeSantis announces 2024 presidential bid at glitchy Twitter event

We show that we can and must revitalize America. We need the courage to lead and the strength to win. I'm Ron DeSantis and I'm running for president to lead our great American comeback. Very good, good afternoon, good night or good morning, depending on everyone. wherever you join us in the world. I'm streaming live from David from Twitter headquarters, I'm David sax here. Elon is sitting next to me and we want to welcome him to this historic Twitter spaces

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and, more broadly, to First in the history of social media tonight, I'm pleased to introduce you to two people who have done the most to loosen the good Sorry, we have so many people here I think we're melting the servers. uh which is a good sign um well I'd like to introduce the people here in the room so it's safe to say we wouldn't be making history without the man sitting next to me, Elon Musk, his decision to purchase this platform. last year to restore its original mission as a beacon for free speech and even to expose Twitter's past complicity with a government censorship regime might have surprised many, but not those of us who have worked with Elon for almost a fourth part.

Century your mouth by our government Elite institutions and corporate media uh go ahead and send a heart if you want to say thank you Elon thank you uh Governor DeSantis first It caught my attention and support when I saw how he responded to the coveted pandemic and refused to I believe what We now know that these are the many falsehoods that the government experts and their media mouthpieces were feeding us. He kept Florida schools open and this economy thriving, while my state of California chose two years of learning loss and lockdowns that we have yet to complete.

Well, there's 382,000 people in the room, okay, cool, so let's see, let's see if they keep blocking it, yeah, I think we have a massive amount of people online, so the service is restricting a little bit, okay, we are simply reallocating more. server capacity uh to be able to handle the load here is really going crazy so um yeah, obviously I'm very excited to have Governor Sanders uh do this uh uh can are you there? Can you hear us? I think I'm here. I know, I think I think you broke the Internet there. We had over half a million people in one Twitter space and it was growing like 50,000 a minute, so congratulations on breaking the internet there.