Ron DeSantis’s bid to become to the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential candidate got off to a wretched start on Wednesday, when the Twitter Spaces event at which he made his announcement in the company of Elon Musk was hit by a series of technical glitches.
The Florida governor’s appearance on the audio-only platform was riddled with errors, the chatroom having to be rebooted at one point and the sound cutting out repeatedly, causing him to be widely ridiculed by everyone from Joe Biden and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Donald Trump, who had a field day posting cruel memes and branding the occasion a “failure to launch” that underlined his rival’s inexperience.
