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DeSantis Plans Campaign Tour After Digital Rollout Misfires – UnlistedNews

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DeSantis Plans Campaign Tour After Digital Rollout Misfires – UnlistedNews

After his digital launch went wild on Twitter on Wednesday night, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is going analog next week for a more traditional launch of his presidential campaign.

Mr. DeSantis will make stops in the top three nominated states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina from May 30 to June 2. The four-day tour through 12 cities and towns is billed as the first leg of his “Great American Comeback.” Tour “Mr. DeSantis will kick off his first in-person event of the campaign in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday. He will remain in Iowa on Wednesday, before traveling to New Hampshire on Thursday and South Carolina on Friday.

“Our campaign is committed to putting in the time to win these first nominee states,” Generra Peck, Mr. DeSantis’s campaign manager, said in a statement.

Campaigning in a presidential primary is, especially early on, usually a grab-and-smile affair. Mr. DeSantis’s decision to declare his candidacy at a Twitter Spaces livestream event with Elon Musk, the platform’s billionaire owner, came with the prospect of spectacular failure, which seemed to happen, at least for the first 25 years. minutes, when the event was plagued. due to technical failures, causing dead air and an intermittently hot microphone.

Mr. DeSantis’s return to a more traditional form of campaigning will continue to be closely watched. He’s had some awkward moments along the way so far while meeting with voters, prompting him to be mocked by the leading candidate for the GOP nomination, former President Donald J. Trump. DeSantis is expected to need a win in Iowa and a close second-place finish in New Hampshire, at the very least, to show he can challenge Trump.

On Thursday night, DeSantis will attend a reception with major donors at a Miami hotel. Donors are helping Mr. DeSantis start his fundraising efforts. Despite the mishap on Twitter, his campaign said that he had raised more than $1 million online during his first hour on Wednesday night.

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