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Elon Musk has quite a lot of affect over the businesses he heads, however apparently, it isn’t sufficient to maintain his workers from donating to Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign regardless of his militant help of former President Donald Trump.
OpenSecret, a nonpartisan nonprofit that tracks U.S. marketing campaign contributions and lobbying information, discovered that – whereas they weren’t precisely enormous sums of cash – workers at Musk’s firms like Tesla, SpaceX and X are donating more cash to Harris’ presidential marketing campaign than Trump’s, Reuters studies. It clearly exhibits that despite the fact that Musk is doing every part he can legally do to spice up Trump’s marketing campaign and defeat the “woke thoughts virus,” the individuals who work for him aren’t shopping for it.
Right here’s how the marketing campaign donation numbers break down, based on Reuters:
Staff at Tesla have contributed $42,824 to Harris’ presidential marketing campaign versus $24,840 to Trump’s marketing campaign, based on OpenSecrets[.]
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Staff at Musk’s rocket firm SpaceX have donated $34,526 to Harris versus $7,652 to Trump. Staff on the social media platform X, previously often called Twitter, have donated $13,213 to Harris versus lower than $500 to Trump.
Whereas the information is a bit stunning, it isn’t precisely groundbreaking. Lots of Musk’s workers (a few of who he tries to have youngsters with) are primarily based in the Communist State of California, in any case. Which may be why he’s moved Tesla out of Fremont, California for Austin, Texas. He’s threatened to do comparable issues with X and SpaceX due to California’s gender-identity legislation that he has known as the “final straw.” Analysts say this may damage these firms as a result of they’d be shedding out on potential expertise in California, however I can’t think about Musk cares very a lot. It’s all about defeating woke or no matter.
Musk’s politics have shifted violently to the precise since he backed President Joe Biden’s marketing campaign again in 2020. He’s now buddied up with Trump so intently that Trump says if he’s elected, Musk shall be appointed to guide a authorities effectivity fee. Since Trump’s first assassination try in Pennsylvania again in July, Musk has pledged his timeless help of the previous president, Trump has known as him “bizarre,” the Secret Service is probing him over suggesting Biden and Harris must be assassinated and Tesla gross sales have dropped. It’s been an odd few months.
