out of the gate. so what we know is he will sit down with elon musk tomorrow and talk through some of this. elon musk confirming that today, but stopping short of endorsing him in any way or saying that he has plans to endorse. so all eyes will turn to that, also here to miami, where he is going to gather his donors to talk to them about his presidential bid and really try to maximize this moment. again, going back to what his team wants. they want to go on the offensive. they want a big blitz coming out of this announcement. they want a lot of media attention and also money. they want to really have a strong showing with millions and millions of dollars right out of the gate so that s what you can bet they ll be leaning on their d donors to do then move toward the next phase of the campaign. jessica, so the event in twitter spaces is 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow, i believe. what is desantis going to do after that? right. so after that, we look ahead to next weekend. you me
And ryan mack. what do you make of him doing this with elon musk, a controversial figure that has leaned heavily into culture wars. elements on twitter? in a way, it s somewhat of a perfect marnriage. in reality, elon musk has been looking for the exact kind of audience that watched tucker carlson, that supported governor desantis. i m not sure it s much of a risk for the desantis team. everything they ve done is carefully scripted. yes, they may take questions. it will be in audio format. this is not designed to set the governor up or be a game of gotcha. the most important announcement isn t what s on twitter. it s what his announcement does for the race. the trump team is aggressively
Run tomorrow night during an event on twitter with ceo, elon musk. it s part of what sources say is the desantis team s unconventional approach and donald trump s team has taken notice and is preparing a counterattack ahead of the announcement. jessica dean joins us from miami. most candidates announce their campaigns during a speech, a rally. why twitter? reporter: it s an interesting question and it s one so many people are asking right now. off officially, desantis people and team not saying why they chose this, but if you talk to those people who work with him, they really believe that he is an unconventional candidate. as you mentioned, they want the campaign that really matches up with him. they want to reach people in different ways and go about this differently. so clearly, this is one way to get attention and to do something quite different right
Him back in a way? i think it s hard to say. obviously, elon would probably love for trump to be back on the platform. i also see this potentially could make trump more resistance to come back to the platform. his main competitor is going to do this twitter space. it seems he is marking that territory for himself and maybe he doesn t want to come paback d fight that battle there. and jeff, we can t ignore the fact that ron desantis has emerged as really taking on some very controversial positions. a six-week abortion ban. six weeks is before a lot of people even know they re pregnant. really targeting the trans community in a very, very aggressive way. you know, getting a lot of african americans very upset with the way he treats the ap course, et cetera. he s really leaned into the culture wars.
Campaign. he s changed his platform dramatically. he s been at odds with the biden administration over several things even though his car company is going to benefit from some of these electric vehicle things but he seems to be concerned about the anyone of the two candidates. a trump versus biden campaign. it will be interesting to see if he holds other forums with other presidential candidates, but this is the first one he s doing. but he says he s not going to endorse at all. we ll see where it goes from here. it s you know, tipping his thumb on the scale i guess a little bit here but i think again, it s a friendly forum for desantis. ryan, what kind of role do you see twitter playing in 2024? do you think that musk and desantis and this alliance, whether it is, could force trump back on to the platform? obviously, musk unbanned trump, but trump s got his own social media site. truth social. do you think this will beckon