Elon Musk Is Going to Try to Make Ron DeSantis Cool

Florida politician Ron DeSantis, that feline who’s decidedly not moving for president, plans to denote he’s moving for president alongside Twitter Elon Musk, nan feline who’s decidedly not a proponent of correct helping politics.

That’s according to a Tuesday study from NBC News where, according to 3 unnamed sources, DeSantis plans to beryllium down connected Donald Trump’s erstwhile favourite pastime and denote to nan world that he’s readying to tally for nan Republican nomination. According to nan report, it will return spot Wednesday astatine 6 p.m. ET connected a Musk-hosted Twitter Spaces. That talk will beryllium moderated by a adjacent friend of some parties, David Sacks.

Musk retweeted a Fox newsman who mentioned nan news, giving a mini spot of credence to nan report. Musk is an unfastened protagonist of DeSantis, having previously claimed he would ballot for nan Florida politician successful a tweet past year. DeSantis has besides tried to person Musk’s backmost connected respective occasions, having attacked Twitter’s erstwhile board during that play erstwhile Musk was trying to return complete nan level successful his dispute takeover bid. DeSantis besides criticized Apple complete its advertizing practices connected Twitter.

Sacks himself is simply a large tech entrepreneur and different acold correct large tech mogul successful nan aforesaid vein arsenic Peter Thiel (the brace really wrote a book together that Thiel later disavowed). He has hovered adjacent to Musk complete nan past fewer months since nan billionaire bought nan platform.

Musk is some proprietor and nan de facto PR caput and look of nan platform. If NBC’s study is true, Musk plans to return some his 140 cardinal followers connected Twitter and nan full bluish vertebrate app and put DeSantis’ planned bid for nan GOP information beforehand and center. According to NBC, this announcement will beryllium followed by a monolithic fundraising thrust for nan campaigner successful Miami.

It’s a correct helping buddy bull show for nan ages, and Musk has been readying this for respective weeks, according to nan unnamed sources. Under DeSantis’ reign, Florida has go a lightning rod for acold correct authorities successful nan post-Trump era, particularly pinch nan governor’s actions toward trans group and nan LGBTQ community. So acold successful nan months earlier he’s announced his presidency, DeSantis promoted his anti-immigrant stance by shipping asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard. He’s picked a conflict pinch Disney complete nan company’s stance connected LGBTQ rights. He’s besides gone difficult against invisible enemies for illustration people who want to prohibition state stoves and has performed nan accustomed blimpish maneuver of attacking tech giants.

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