Will Elon Musk Tip the Election for Trump?

Leah Feiger: So Trump brings Musk out, he calls him a really unimaginable man. Musk actually jumps into the air on stage, in what was captured in truthfully one of many cringiest pictures that I’ve seen on-line perhaps this yr, after which Musk talks to the gang for a few minutes. What does he say? Speak us via that.

Vittoria Elliott: It is such a flip from 2020 when there’s all this suspicion round mail-in ballots, round early voting. Now abruptly we’re listening to, “Ensure you’re registered to vote, vote early, do that, try this, get everybody you understand to vote.” There’s this actually, actually huge get-out-the-vote push, and that’s what Elon was on. When the murderer’s bullet grazed Trump’s ear, he obtained up and mentioned, “Battle, combat, combat.” And Musk very consciously mentioned, “Vote, vote, vote.” And everybody within the crowd instantly noticed that parallel that—

Leah Feiger: I imply, he drew it. Yeah.

Vittoria Elliott: Individuals had been very into that, and one of many issues that Musk mentioned that obtained numerous response from the those that I used to be immediately round was he mentioned, “The Second—”

Elon Musk [Archival audio]: The Second Modification is there to make sure that now we have the First Modification.

Vittoria Elliott: He was there to whip up the troops, to actually converse to the true believers, to push, push, push for voter turnout, as a result of I believe my sense with the way in which that the MAGA motion is correct now could be that they perceive what the Biden crew understood in 2020 the place it isn’t about changing new individuals, it is about getting the individuals which are already in your crew mobilized. He mentioned, “This election is a very powerful election of our lifetime.” Fairly regular. I believe I’ve heard each politician say that for the final 20 years, however then he says, “You must convey everybody you understand to vote. If they do not, this shall be—”

Elon Musk [Archival audio]: This would be the final election. That is my prediction. Nothing’s extra necessary, nothing’s extra necessary.

Vittoria Elliott: I even had some individuals repeat that to me on the way in which out of the rally, and that’s additionally one thing he has been very public about saying on X, even earlier than coming to this rally. Loads of instances when Musk is talking publicly or when he is interviewed, he’ll tamp again a number of the rhetoric that he spreads on-line. If we predict again to the Don Lemon interview, the place he was confronted in regards to the nice substitute concept, he hedged slightly bit on that.