President Joe Biden took a jab against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after the governor’s presidential campaign launch was overshadowed by technical difficulties on Wednesday.
The Republican governor has been long expected to run in the 2024 GOP primaries and planned to formally enter the race during a conversation on Twitter Spaces Wednesday. The live-streamed event, however, was plagued with mishaps, causing the social media app to crash several times within the first 20 minutes of conversation between DeSantis and his co-hosts, Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Craft Ventures co-founder David Sacks.
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Biden mocked DeSantis’ campaign launch over Twitter shortly after the event began, tweeting out a link to his re-election campaign with the comment, “This link works.”
The Twitter Spaces live stream was set to begin at 6 p.m. EST, but by 6:15 p.m., the event had been taken off the server after several minutes of glitches and deafening feedback. At 6:20 p.m., Musk restarted Twitter Spaces and DeSantis was able to officially announce his bid.
Former President Donald Trump, who is the current front-runner for the 2024 Republican primary, also took a hit at DeSantis in a video shared to his Truth Social account. The 45-second video switched between video clips of Trump’s campaign announcement last November and snippets of DeSantis’ live stream from Wednesday night. Trump launched his campaign bid at an event hosted at his Mar-a-Lago estate shortly after the 2022 midterm election.
This is a developing story, and it will be updated as more information becomes available.