DeSantis’ Campaign To Be President Of Twitter Had A Rough Start

LOADING ERROR LOADING Florida Gov. DeSantis’ plan for winning the nomination over the party’s front-runner, former President Donald Trump, involves tempting those same commentators with their favorite red meat issues: attacking transgender rights, the failures of the corporate media, the superiority of Bitcoin, owning the libs, relitigating how DeSantis’ management of COVID was superior to that of other governors — Florida’s 18th-highest per capita death rate in the country be damned — and cracking down on immigration. A memo from Third Way, a centrist Democratic group, noted DeSantis’ actual campaign The danger for DeSantis, then, is that months of courting the online right could backfire if he heads into a general election against Biden, who is free to spend the next 18 months emphasizing his most popular stances on the most salient issues for a general electorate. Another Democratic report, based on focus groups and polling with voters in small cities through the Midwest ― the places where Biden won back just enough white working-class voters to win the presidency in 2020 ― found the GOP’s culture war message, focused on the “woke agenda,” was less effective than a straight-forward economic one. Afterward, Dave Rubin, a TV host and YouTuber who had just moved from California to Florida, tweeted to his million Twitter followers: “I’m no longer an enemy of the state … Florida is the future.” DeSantis’ Twitter launch boosts his online cred as well as spares him from things he famously doesn’t like to do, like speaking with a live journalist.