The tech snafu gave the national press the surprising story it prefers — a highly anticipated presidential-campaign announcement, using a new social-media venue, was paralyzed by technical problems for nearly a half hour …

But in a week or two weeks, when people talk about Ron DeSantis, they’re not going to be talking about Twitter Spaces and Elon Musk. By the end of the night, DeSantis had done two scheduled interviews in traditional venues — a Fox News prime-time interview with former congressman Trey Gowdy and a radio interview with Mark Levin. Today, DeSantis is scheduled to do interviews with conservative radio hosts Erick Erickson and Dana Loesch. His campaign video on Twitter has been viewed 15 million times as of this writing. Everybody who wants to see and listen to DeSantis will have ample opportunity. …

No one who was contemplating voting for DeSantis is now not going to vote for him because Twitter Spaces took too long to start working last night. No one who was opposed to voting for DeSantis is going to change their mind because of last night, either.

[It’s fair to criticize the decision to make such a singular and defining event on a relatively untried platform. It gives the event an impression of gimmickry for its own sake. However, once the event got underway, it allowed for a very good demonstration of DeSantis’ depth on policy and ability to demonstrate expertise in a number of areas — as one would expect of a two-term governor, especially in a large border/shore state. In the end, though, it’s just one day on the campaign, even if in retrospect it may not have been a wise idea for the *first* day on the campaign. — Ed]