Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis will announce his 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday evening in a conversation with tech mogul Elon Musk on Twitter, multiple sources confirmed on Tuesday afternoon. Musk himself retweeted the news as shared by Fox News' Bill Melugin:
BREAKING: @FoxNews confirms Florida Governor @RonDeSantis will announce his 2024 Presidential run tomorrow night, 6pm ET in a Twitter Spaces interview with @elonmusk.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 23, 2023
DeSantis' will be a first-of-its-kind announcement at 6:00 p.m. ET, taking place on Twitter's "Spaces" feature that allows audio conversations between the platform's users. The announcement conversation between Musk and DeSantis will be moderated by David Sacks.
"We hear that the announcement is gonna take place - 6 PM tomorrow night in a Twitter space conversation that Ron DeSantis will have with @elonmusk..." pic.twitter.com/6SBVvJArU9
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 23, 2023
According to NBC News, DeSantis' newly-official presidential campaign will also release an official campaign launch video on Wednesday night to be followed up with visits to early primary states following the Memorial Day weekend.
Ron DeSantis' forthcoming announcement puts him in a crowded GOP primary field that increased in size just this week when Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) formally announced his campaign on Monday. DeSantis will join former President Donald Trump, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Governor Asa Hutchinson, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Larry Elder in the GOP primary field seeking to challenge President Joe Biden's re-election bid.
Even before he made his decision official DeSantis has been in a comfortable second place spot among GOP voters in key states. What remains to be seen now is how polls move after DeSantis officially hits the campaign trail as a declared candidate for president in 2024.
After the news of the announcement was reported, DeSantis' website and Twitter account — as well as First Lady Casey DeSantis' account — was updated to give a preview of what may be the presidential campaign's branding:
New DeSantis branding has dropped on his website and Twitter 👀 pic.twitter.com/ZEXcG5BSvA
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 23, 2023
This is a developing story and may be updated.