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Faking Empathy

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Ron DeSantis' Twitter Live

The last real presidential candidate announcement that I remember being traditional was actually Barack Obama's in 2007 where he announced in Illinois. For the most part, these things get overhyped, they underdeliver, you kind of just want to get past them. But Ron DeSantis spent an hour on this Twitter live taking questions. He sort of delivered a written speech at the top and then the questions were kind of niche, cryptocurrency type stuff. This is a weird way to substantively start a campaign Where you say that your primary focus is Iowa and New Hampshire, Twitter and crypto.

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