MIAMI – It looks like Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to announce his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination during an event with Elon Musk on Wednesday.
David Sacks, who supports DeSantis, is set to participate in the digital event at 6 p.m., on Twitter Spaces, a platform for live audio conversations, according to NBC News.
“I will be interviewing Ron DeSantis, and he has quite an announcement to make,” Musk told The Wall Street Journal.
Federal campaign finance rules are also likely to prompt DeSantis to file his bid with the Federal Election Commission before his top donors meet at the Four Seasons in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood this week.
Florida Republican lawmakers helped DeSantis to establish his conservative platform and “anti-woke” culture war issues ahead of the announcement.
DeSantis signed state bills into law to make it illegal for physicians to provide gender-transition care to minors, to establish a six-week abortion ban that is being disputed in court, and to allow Floridians to carry concealed firearms without a permit.
Former President Donald Trump and his allies have already been treating DeSantis as a rival.
Most recently, Trump criticized him over his ongoing feud with Walt Disney, which stems from a law that critics have come to refer to as the “Don’t Stay Gay” law for its limits on school lessons on gender and sexuality.
Musk, who did not say if he was endorsing DeSantis, also retweeted a Fox News report that followed the NBC and ABC News reports on Tuesday afternoon about the purpose of the Wednesday event on Twitter.
Trump announced his run on Nov. 15, 2022, Nikki Haley announced her run on Feb. 14, Vivek Ramaswamy followed on Feb. 21, and Asa Hutchinson on April 2.
Tim Scott announced he is running on Monday. Other potential candidates include former vice president Mike Pence, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, Kristi Noem, Liz Cheney, and Chris Christie.
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