Ron DeSantis Launches His Presidential Campaign Like the Right-Wing Troll that He Is

After a monthslong shadow campaign, Ron DeSantis finally made it official Wednesday: He’s running. The Florida governor, whose bigoted culture wars have made him a hero to the far-right, formally entered the race for the 2024 Republican nomination in a Twitter Spaces announcement, casting himself as a more electable version of Donald Trump — whose movement DeSantis hopes to inherit. “We must end the culture of losing that has infected the Republican Party in recent years," DeSantis said on Twitter Wednesday, in a chat with Elon Musk and their mutual...