{"id":1937677,"date":"2023-05-25T06:41:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T10:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-takeaways-from-the-desantis-2024-campaign-launch-night\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T06:43:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T10:43:55","slug":"5-takeaways-from-the-desantis-2024-campaign-launch-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-takeaways-from-the-desantis-2024-campaign-launch-night\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Key Points from DeSantis&#8217; 2024 Campaign Launch Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-takeaways-from-the-desantis-2024-campaign-launch-night%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1937677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Florida Governor&#8217;s Campaign Launch Rocked by Tech Issues<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made a bold move by launching his presidential campaign on Twitter, but it backfired when the Twitter chatroom crashed due to the overwhelming number of listeners. However, after resolving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-leaders-to-meet-with-trump-on-agenda\/\" title=\"GOP Leaders to Meet With Trump on Agenda\">tech issues<\/a>, the conversation on Twitter Spaces quickly turned to policy, both foreign and domestic, with billionaire Elon Musk and investor David Sacks. During the Spaces chat, a subsequent interview on Fox News, and a call with reporters from The Epoch Times and other media, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-excites-crowd-in-speech-to-alabama-gop-prompts-record-fundraising\/\" title=\"DeSantis Excites Crowd in Speech to Alabama GOP, Prompts Record Fundraising\">governor introduced<\/a> his approach to China, how he would handle the FBI, and addressed a wide range of issues, including his approach to abortion laws and his ongoing conflict with Disney.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Launch Issues and Positive Outcome<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The technical problems appeared to be caused by the number of listeners attempting to tune in to DeSantis\u2019 announcement, with some 600,000 Twitter users flooding into the chatroom. Despite the ridicule, DeSantis\u2019s camp latched on to the positive fact that the campaign raised more than $1 million on its first night. According to Twitter, a total of 1.4 million listeners tuned into the conversation. After the event, Sacks wrote on Twitter that it \u201cwas by far the biggest room ever held on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Handling the FBI and China<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis said that if elected as president, he would remove FBI Director Christopher Wray on his first day in office. He believes that the FBI and DOJ have lost their way and have been weaponized against Americans who think like him and his supporters. DeSantis also emphasized the need to recognize China as the foremost geopolitical threat to the United States and highlighted the growing interdependence between the two economies. He proposed strengthening relationships with key allies to effectively counter Chinese expansionism in the Pacific and stressed the significance of recognizing China\u2019s increasing presence in the Western Hemisphere and the potential threats it poses to national security.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Settling the Russia-Ukraine War<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis wants to settle the Russia-Ukraine war and avoid a larger conflict that could draw in American troops. He believes that the war is a territorial dispute that should not be of U.S. national interest. However, he condemned Putin as \u201ca war criminal\u201d and does not want to see the U.S. with their troops get meshed in a war in Ukraine. Republicans in Congress are divided on support for funding the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-takeaways-from-the-desantis-2024-campaign-launch-night\/\" title=\"5 Key Points from DeSantis' 2024 Campaign Launch Night\">initial tech issues<\/a>, DeSantis\u2019s campaign launch on Twitter was a success, raising more than $1 million on its first night. The governor introduced his approach to China, how he would handle the FBI, and addressed a wide range of issues, including his approach to abortion laws and his ongoing conflict with Disney. DeSantis emphasized the need to recognize China as the foremost geopolitical threat to the United States and highlighted the growing interdependence between the two economies. He also wants to settle the Russia-Ukraine war and avoid a larger conflict that could draw in American troops.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis faced a setback during his campaign launch as the Twitter chatroom crashed due to 600,000 listeners. However, the tech issues were resolved, and the conversation on Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk and David Sacks shifted to policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1937679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4506,4087,4980,7233,4706,6692],"class_list":["post-1937677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-4506","tag-campaign","tag-desantis","tag-key","tag-launch","tag-night"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}