The Tesla CEO has donated to Democrat candidates and political committees. But his giving has leaned more to the GOP in the past year.
, Tesla chief executive and would-be buyer of Twitter, has given himself a new title: Republican.The tweet followed comments this week, in which he suggested that he might vote Republican and where he lobbed his latest criticism at US President Joe Biden’s administration, saying that it “doesn’t get a lot done”.
Mr Musk has also expressed dismay at Biden’s reluctance to acknowledge Tesla’s prominence in the electric vehicle industry. Mr Musk has donated to candidates and political committees of both parties, but his giving has leaned more to Republicans in the past year. He has used his huge Twitter following to attack Democratic legislators, including Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, all of whom have advocated higher taxes on billionaires.
GOP Senator Ted Cruz, who represents Mr Musk’s new home state of Texas, tweeted last month that Mr Musk’s purchase of Twitter “is the most important development for free speech in decades”. Mr Musk said that it was “flat out stupid” for the platform to ban Mr Trump after the former president’s supporters raided the US Capitol on January 6, last year.
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