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Gov. Ron DeSantis

Photo: Mario Tama
Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images)

Everybody’s (nobody’s) favorite “meatball” DeSantis is being similarly targeted by bots, despite him not officially announcing his candidacy for president. In Twitter conversations surrounding the Florida governor, 15% of those tweets regarding him, Trump and the 2024 election contained bots. Even more curious, nearly 70% of those fake profiles were promoting that DeSantis should instead shack up with Trump as his running mate, rather than going it alone.