Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently announced he plans on voting Republican in โthis election,โ possibly for the first time.
โI have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically. Like Iโm not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear,โ Musk said on the All-In Summit podcast on Monday. โNow this election I will.โ
Musk, who is the richest man in the world and the potential new owner of Twitter, did not clarify whether he intended to vote Republican in the upcoming midterm elections, the 2024 presidential election, or both.
The Tesla CEO was critical of President Biden during his interview, claiming that โthe real president is whoever controls the teleprompter.โ
โThis administration doesnโt seem to get a lot done,โ Musk added. โThe Trump administration, leaving Trump aside, there were a lot of people in the administration who were effective at getting things done.โ
He also said the Democratic Party is โoverly controlled by the unions and by the trial lawyers, particularly class-action lawyers.โ
โTo be fair, on the Republican side โ if you [ask] why is something not ideal happening, itโs because of corporate evil and religious zealotry,โ he added.
Musk told the podcast he is not โright-wingโ and considers himself a โmoderate.โ
The interview comes one month after Musk shared a meme on Twitter showing how liberals have become more radical over the last decade. The meme depicted a leftward shift that has left behind those like Musk who once identified as liberal but now sit to the right-of-center on the political spectrum because their views have not changed, while progressives have shifted far-left.
Musk is poised to take over Twitter after making a $44 billion bid to buy the social-media company, though he suggested recently that the deal โcannot move forwardโ until the platform can prove no more than 5 percent of its users are fake.
If he does complete the deal, he plans to change Twitterโs content-moderation policy, which he has said shows a โvery far-left bias.โ He says it would be a โmoderate wing takeover,โ rather than the โright-wing takeover as people on the left may fear.โ







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