Morning Joe Panel Confused by DeSantis Twitter Spaces Presidential Announcement

JORDAN: “... seems to make no sense. Because first of all, why do you share your big moment with a huge, powerful billionaire who’s arguably more famous and has more name ID than you do? And then second, you’re on this platform that’s diminishing in its popularity, and also its reach. Maybe political journalists talk about it.”

GEIST: “Right.”

JORDAN: “Maybe the far right elites talk about it. But Twitter is a diminishing force these days. And you’ve seen how Three Elon everything he touches can — you know, he does well, when he’s engineering in his Tesla, but with Twitter, you’ve seen how he doesn’t mind just casually tossing a couple of billion dollars or multiple billion dollars. And so you’ve got this volatile actor that you’ve given so much power for your big moment, it just really makes sense.”

GEIST: “Well, in many ways, John, since he took over Twitter, Elon Musk has become a hero to conservatives because they feel like their voices were silenced on social media, at least on Twitter, and he’s given their platform back, at least to share some of that space. Maybe a shot across the bow of Donald Trump, I got the richest most famous guy on my side, we know that Elon Musk is kind of malleable that way, he may decide to like somebody else tomorrow. What do you make of the platform in the way that Ron DeSantis finally is rolling out the campaign.”

LEMIRE: “I mean it’s another sign of where Musk’s political ideologies lie, even though he said he wanted Twitter — he wanted to be independent, nonpartisan. Here he is siding himself with one of the heavyweights in the Republican Party. I think it is interesting also that it shows his influence and it’s maybe it’s DeSantis’ snubbing Fox News by saying, ‘Hey, let’s do this on Twitter,’ as opposed to talking to them. I’m going to go the other way up from Charlie Sykes though. I think the tonight at 5:59 P.M. is probably Donald Trump’s first tweet back, try to steal some of that thunder. But Katty Kay, one thing — this is — undeniably, it’s an unusual way to announce a campaign.”