i m neil cavuto. glad to have you. i want to thank sandra smith and charles payne filling in. i m happy to be back. let s go to ashley webster on the timing of this announcement and how it is going to be released to the public. ashley? yeah, interesting developments. good afternoon to you, neil. fox news confirming that ron desantis will declare for president tomorrow evening. guess what? he s going to do it on twitter. listen to elon musk saying it. yes, i will be interviewing ron desantis. he has quite an announcement to make. and will be the first time something like this is happening on social media with real time questions and answers, not scripted. yeah, just a little different. the event, by the way, scheduled to take place at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. he s expected to file all the necessary paperwork with the federal election commission as well as that will officially kickoff the desantis campaign for president. musk has said in the past that he likes the governor
trump, but this didn t go down well with donald trump. i caught up with him earlier today on fox business. he explainthat business strategy to support the florida governor. take a look. donald trump can only serve one term. he will effectively be a lame duck on day one if he were to win. i don t think he can win the general. that s the number 2 reason. there s states that matter and we all know what those are. it s things like nevada, arizona and virginia, wisconsin. i don t see trump winning any of those states. we can t win if we don t win those states. so also, i think governor desantis has done an amazing job as governor. there s nothing wrong with that candidacy. it s time to move on. governor desantis has a vision forward instead of hashing out things from the past. neil: did you announce these intentions? it s been awhile. to donald trump. if see, what was his reaction? no, i didn t.