thanks for joining us tonight. cnn tonight with alisyn camerota is starting right now. alisyn, hello. good evening, everyone. i m alisyn, camerota, welcome to cnn tonight. if unconventional is what ron desantis was going for tonight he got it. he decided to launch his campaign on twitter. the live stream crashed, the sound cut in and out but eventually desantis made his case. you can set your clock to january 20, 2025 at high noon because on the west side of the u.s. capitol i will be taking the oath of office as the 47th president of the united states. no excuses, i will get the job done. tonight our panel shares their take on what this means for the race for the white house. plus the culture wars strike again. this time target is pulling some rainbow themed products from store shelves before pride month before workers reportedly made customers feel unsafe. and tina turner dies at the age of 83. so many classic songs, so many electric performances and her chall
space than the actual video itself. alissa, why didn t he just go to a beach bar in florida surrounded by an army of supporters? listen, i give him opponents for doing something creative. i said this morning it s going to be either brilliant or disastrous. it was closer to the latter. the rules of the campaign launch is first do no harm, second look presidential. they did harm on the tech front, but looking presidential it was a very strange platform, having him with two other people. you can t even see him. comm staffers, event staffers spend months to the tee planning these things to make you see the candidate and say that is the next leader of the free world. and him kind of hob knobbing with elon musk about a variety of important issues, but off camera and this other gentleman jumping in, it did not feel presidential. that said he s got a massive war chest. i think he still has a chance to go only up in the polls, but it was not a good launch. scott, you wrote a piece for