By Jessica Dean, Clare Duffy and David Wright | CNN
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will announce his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination Wednesday evening in a dialog with Twitter proprietor Elon Musk, a spokesperson for his political workforce tells CNN.
The announcement, which was first reported by NBC Information, will happen at 6 p.m. ET on Twitter Areas, the place the platform’s customers can take part in audio conversations, and will likely be moderated by tech entrepreneur David Sacks.
CNN has reached out to Musk for remark. The tech titan publicly confirmed the dialog at a Wall Road Journal occasion Tuesday.
“I will likely be interviewing Ron DeSantis, and he has fairly an announcement to make. And will probably be the primary time that one thing like that is occurring on social media and with real-time questions and solutions, unscripted,” Musk mentioned, including that he was not planning to endorse a candidate “right now.”
Sacks is a serious political donor and DeSantis booster. In 2021, he contributed simply over $70,000 to the governor’s political committee.
As CNN beforehand reported, the DeSantis workforce is planning an aggressive schedule and unconventional method to a presidential marketing campaign. The workforce is plotting an unpredictable, relentless blitz of the political map designed to rapidly get him in entrance of 1000’s of main voters, stir the pot and invite contrasts between the 44-year-old governor and the campaigns of his older rivals – former President Donald Trump, the present GOP front-runner, and President Joe Biden – in line with folks acquainted with the planning.
DeSantis is anticipated to file paperwork declaring his candidacy with the Federal Election Fee this week, a Republican acquainted with the matter instructed CNN, with a proper announcement deliberate for subsequent week in his Florida hometown of Dunedin.
