By REAGAN REESE AND HENRY RODGERS
Awkward would be one way to describe the atmosphere at ground zero of the DeSantis campaign’s launch in a ritzy event space at the Four Seasons in Miami on May 24, 2023.
Major donors and campaign officials had gathered to eat, drink and be merry during their next president’s big announcement. Except, when the time came, there was no announcement, no big speech, no DeSantis.
“Everyone was eating and having drinks and chatting and trying to listen into the Twitter spaces. And the tech problems were there, and so in the room, it was definitely awkward,” one former DeSantis campaign staffer who was in the room told the Daily Caller.
“Everyone’s like, ‘Oh, we’re back. Oh, no, we’re not. Did we miss everything he said?’ There was a little bit of confusion,” the staffer continued.
They were watching live as their White House hopeful spoke behind a blank screen for an audience that could have mistaken the announcement for a mid-2000’s “can you hear me now?” Verizon commercial. Live streaming only audio – no video – to a virtual room of a few hundred thousand people, DeSantis and Elon Musk jumped on billionaire David Sacks’ Twitter account, not DeSantis’ or the highly-followed Musk’s. The initial attempt to go live from Musk’s account had been abandoned due to technical glitches and overloaded servers that derailed the event.
“Everyone’s kind of like, ‘Oh this is kind of weird. Why? Is this really the number one choice that we had?’” the staffer said.
That same night, DeSantis later appeared on Fox News for a traditional cable television hit, the kind of media outreach that has long been the backbone of successful 21st-century campaigns…
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