DeSantis campaign touts fundraising haul
After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a presidential bid on Wednesday, his marketing campaign claimed that it had scored greater than $1 million in an hour.
“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis introduced his marketing campaign for president tonight to steer our Nice American Comeback in a dialog with Elon Musk on Twitter Areas. The dialog garnered a lot consideration that DeSantis actually broke the Web and raised greater than $1 million on-line within the first hour of his marketing campaign,” the press launch claimed.
DeSantis launched a video asserting his White Home bid simply forward of a Twitter Areas dialog with Elon Musk had been scheduled to start out. The Twitter Areas occasion suffered technical difficulties however was ultimately held on the social media platform through a special person’s channel.
Former President Donald Trump pounced on the Twitter debacle.
“Wow! The DeSanctus TWITTER launch is a DISASTER! His complete marketing campaign might be a catastrophe. WATCH!” Trump declared on Reality Social. “Is the DeSantis launch FATAL? Sure!” he wrote in one other post.
Responding to the press launch about DeSantis’ fundraising haul, Trump senior advisor Jason Miller tweeted, “Overlook $1 million. $1 BILLION could not repair the injury accomplished to DeSantis’ marketing campaign with as we speak’s failed launch.”
Trump has been concentrating on DeSantis for months. Polls have proven DeSantis to be in second place behind Trump, although Trump holds a big lead.
The Florida governor secured a decisive re-election victory final 12 months within the Sunshine State’s gubernatorial contest, which implies that if he had been to turn out to be president, he wouldn’t end his time period because the state’s governor.
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