with two more hopefuls officially launching their bids. the florida governor ron desantis and senator tim scott. mr scott has represented south carolina in the chamber since 2013, promising to revive america s culture of greatness. at a launch event in his hometown of north charleston on monday, mr scott used his personal story as an embodiment of the american dream. this was shortly followed by ron desantis long expected entry into the race and, while he trails donald trump in the polls, he is widely seen as his main rival. but his launch made headlines for other reasons. he chose to announce on a twitter livestream, which was hit by technical glitches. let s listen to how they both announced their candidacy. iam running i am running for president of the united states to lead our great american conduct. look, we know our country is going on the wrong direction. we see it with our eyes, and we feel it in our bones. our southern border has collapsed. drugs are pouring into
presidential nomination, with two more hopefuls officially launching their bids the florida governor, ron desantis and senator, tim scott. mr scott has represented south carolina in the chamber since 2013, promising to revive america s culture of greatness . at a launch event in his hometown of north charleston on monday, mr scott used his personal story as an embodiment of the american dream. this was shortly followed by ron desantis long expected entry into the race and, while he trails donald trump in the polls, he is widely seen as his main rival. but his launch made headlines for other reasons. he chose to announce on a twitter livestream, which was hit by technical glitches. let s listen to how they both announced their candidacy. i am running for president of the united states to lead our great american comeback. look, we know our country is going in the wrong direction. we see it with our eyes, and we feel it in our bones. our southern border has collapsed. drugs
with two more hopefuls officially launching their bids. the florida governor ron desantis and senator tim scott. mr scott has represented south carolina in the chamber since 2013, promising to revive america s culture of greatness. at a launch event in his hometown of north charleston on monday, mr scott used his personal story as an embodiment of the american dream. this was shortly followed by ron desantis long expected entry into the race and, while he trails donald trump in the polls, he is widely seen as his main rival. but his launch made headlines for other reasons. he chose to announce on a twitter livestream, which was hit by technical glitches. let s listen to how they both announced their candidacy. iam running i am running for president of the united states to lead our great american conduct. look, we know our country is going on the wrong direction. we see it with our eyes, and we feel it in our bones. our southern border has collapsed. drugs are pouring into the countr
all that played out? well, luckily he is not running for the commander of twitter s it departments in chief, but i think he did a really good job of what we needed to do, reaching out to conservatives, because republicans, if they want to take back the white house, need to reach out to swing state voters. if they are going to be the nominee, they need to reach out to caucus colours into the primary in new hampshire and south carolina, and those people they are going to reach by being on fox news, by being on glenn beck, lots of conservative talk radio, so i think he was really targeting the audience that matters, the audience that is going to vote for him, and twitter is part of that, from the elon musk angle. it was clunky, but he has got such an adversarial relationship with the press, i think it was always going to be picked apart one way or the other. i think that he just got out, hopped in, and is ready to go,
between today and when we actually had a nominee in the party, the other folks who lead in the national polling with ben carson, scott walker, who actually didn t even make it to iowa, marco rubio, ted cruz. so i think ruling people in or out as candidates, at this point in time, nobody would rule donald trump in as a candidate, and frankly didn t for quite some time until he was the actual nominee so i think it is premature to rule anybody in and out, and there is a lot of good candidates for cycle, 2016 has actually turned into much more of a traditional cycle, we ve got governors, current governors, former and current senators running. you have a good crop of candidates. we will see. i think it will matter a lot more once they get on the debate stage. a really interesting point, terry. to follow up on ron desantis, what did you make of his announcement on twitter this week, and how