Jeff, Michael, Noah, and Jim have already provided their reactions to Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s reported decision to launch his presidential campaign tomorrow in a Twitter Spaces conversation with Elon Musk, moderated by DeSantis supporter David Sacks.
Jeff acknowledges that the move “seems like the decision of a campaign that is ‘terminally online,’ i.e., far too embroiled in the navel-gazing bubble of online media and political commentary,” but observes some advantages: novelty, the possibility of reaching both younger voters and the “mainstream-media journalists and commentators” who congregate on the platform, and association with the brand of Musk. Jeff further believes that Musk, a DeSantis fan, is likely to go easy on DeSantis.
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