Ron DeSantis. Executive Workplace of the Governor, State of Florida

• Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign group held a donor briefing on Thursday at 4 Seasons Hotel Miami.
• The occasion was held a day following the governor’s glitch-filled campaign announcement on Twitter.
• Members of the campaign group gave speaking points on how to spin the Twitter meltdown.

Ron DeSantis’s supporters have been playing up the 2024 candidate’s fundraising haul following his glitch-filled presidential campaign launch on Twitter, but his group would have preferred if the servers did not have a meltdown in the middle of Wednesday’s announcement, leaked audio obtained by FloridaPolitics.com reveals. 

Through a donor briefing held on Thursday at the luxurious 4 Seasons Hotel in Miami, DeSantis’s campaign group responded to a query about the Twitter occasion that was supposed to kick off DeSantis’s hugely anticipated 2024 presidential run.

Alternatively, the announcement was marred with crashes, awkward silences, and standby music as almost 500,000 people today attempted to tune in.

“We all know we certainly would have preferred that the online had not broken, without having query,” a member of DeSantis’s campaign group stated in the audio. “We did not script it that way.” 

The rocky launch swiftly offered fodder for the governor’s most important rival, Donald Trump.

“Wow! The DeSanctus TWITTER launch is a DISASTER! His entire campaign will be a disaster,” Trump wrote on Truth, his social media platform. “WATCH!”

Trump’s responses also gave a preview of how AI technologies will be employed to attack candidates. In an Instagram post, Trump shared a video mocking the occasion by applying AI-generated voices of Musk and DeSantis. Other characters featured have been George Soros, Adolf Hitler, and “The Devil.”

But DeSantis’ camp has attempted to downplay the technical hiccups of the occasion and concentrate on the cash that was raised following the governor’s announcement. In 24 hours, the campaign raised much more than $eight million via on line donations and donors.

DeSantis spokespersons Bryan Griffin and Christina Pushaw shared a New York Occasions write-up reporting the numbers.

General, the campaign has cast the Twitter malfunction as a sign of overwhelming interest in a DeSantis presidential run. By Thursday afternoon, the campaign was promoting merch about the occasion. 

Through the donor preparing session and presentation, DeSantis’s campaign also offered a couple of perspectives and speaking points to spin the Twitter occasion as a valuable moment for the governor.

1 group member surmised that most candidates would have “melted” beneath the stress of people today waiting for the announcement to kick off. He also supposed that most campaign teams would have had a person on the telephone, speaking to a reporter and “leaking to throw a person beneath the bus” ahead of the occasion was more than “and that did not occur.”

Accounting for the comprehensive media coverage of the Twitter debacle, a DeSantis campaign group member concluded that the announcement was effective and argued that DeSantis was “prepared to engage on substance” concerning policy. 

“The purpose final evening was the biggest attain doable and we accomplished that,” he stated. 

A spokesperson for DeSantis did not return a request for comment.

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