Her ruler Florida Ron DeSandis to announce his 2024 presidential candidacy during a debate with Elon Musk This was reported by the American media on Wednesday.

Musk, CEO of Twitter, plans to host an event at Twitter Spaces with DeSandis at 6:00 pm local time (10:00 pm Greek time).

On Tuesday, Musk retweeted a Fox News tweet about the upcoming Twitter Spaces meeting to his 140 million followers. The billionaire said it would be “the first time” such an announcement has been made on social media, but it’s not clear if he himself supports the Florida governor.

Ron De Sandys, 43, has had an impressively successful personal career. Despite his “humble” background (with great-great-grandparents who immigrated to the US from Italy and working-class parents), he ended up – with his baseball game as a ticket – at Yale University and then at Harvard University. , before that, along the way, spent several years in the US military (in Iraq, Guantanamo, etc.), and then was elected a member of parliament from the Republican Party (2013-2018), and then the governor of Florida. (since January 2019).

When asked to describe Ron DeSandis by The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins, he described the man as “very smart”, with a “very high IQ”, who “exudes ambition” and “clearly wants to be President of the United States”.

De Sandys is anti-abortion, pro-gun, avoids any discussion of LGBTI rights, and maintains his reservations on climate change. At the same time, it is shown that he takes a tough stance towards Iran, the Palestinian Authority and Cuba. However, unlike other Republicans, who can even be called Russophiles, he criticized Vladimir Putin for the war in Ukraine.

It should be noted that during the pandemic, he, as governor of Florida, came into conflict with the federal authorities and the Biden administration, as he refused to comply with mandatory masks, vaccinations and isolation measures.

War with Disney

In February, DeSandis lifted Disney’s special status in the state, suspending the relative autonomy the company had enjoyed since the 1960s, and reorganized the board of directors for Disney World’s special district, which includes four theme parks, dozens of hotels and entertainment venues.

This council was responsible for overseeing the exploitation of the land surrounding Disney World. Florida’s governor now has the power to appoint members to it, which until now only landowners in the 100,000-square-kilometre area could do. Disney owns most of the land.

Commenting on the move, DeSandis stated, “There’s a new sheriff in town.”

In early April, Disney CEO Bob Iger publicly accused DeSandis of taking “anti-commercial measures” that violated the company’s “right to free speech.”

Then a newly formed tourism commission, appointed by the governor himself on Wednesday, canceled a trade deal recently struck with Disney World in Orlando, Florida, which employs 75,000 people and attracts 50 million people annually.

Disney responded by condemning their lawsuit as “retaliatory, clearly anti-commercial and clearly unconstitutional.” The company calculated that “it has no choice but to take legal action to protect its employees, customers and partners.”

Disney expects to invest more than $17 billion in Disney World over the next decade, create more than 10,000 jobs and bring even more tourists to Florida.