What Elon Musk told his 203 million X followers on election day

On Election Day, Elon Musk used his X account to encourage his 203 million followers to vote for Donald Trump. He additionally used it to stoke fears about election interference. Musk, one in every of Trump’s most vocal and rich supporters, has thrown the burden of his social media firm and his pockets behind the previous president. He is given nearly $120 million to the Trump marketing campaign and posted incessantly about Trump in current weeks.

On Tuesday, he posted, “Males are voting in report numbers,” and predicted a “huge sea change” in Trump’s favor because of this. He reshared posts from different Trump supporters and peppered his replies with American flag emojis.

Musk additionally shared a photograph of himself carrying a leather-based jacket adorned with a voting sticker. “Simply voted in Cameron County, Texas, dwelling of Starbase!” he added, referring to a facility for his rocket firm, SpaceX.

After voting, Musk flew to Florida to observe the election outcomes alongside Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the previous president’s personal membership. “I will be there with President Trump and JD and a bunch of different cool folks,” Musk stated throughout a livestream on Areas, an audio streaming function of X. “They’ve a terrific humorousness.”

Musk instructed listeners he would possibly announce the outcomes on X with Trump on Tuesday evening, “if the votes are clear sufficient that there’s victory.”

He additionally stated his tremendous PAC, America PAC, had been targeted on get-out-the-vote efforts in Pennsylvania and offered transportation for voters attempting to get to the polls, “to not less than match if not exceed the Democratic floor sport.” Musk had stated he would host digital audio “city halls” Monday evening and Tuesday morning to take questions from voters. However after the Monday stream on X was plagued with technical difficulties, Musk ended the decision and didn’t host one Tuesday on the scheduled time. He launched the Areas livestream within the early night as an alternative.

The tech mogul posted extra darkish predictions about Trump’s opponents on Tuesday. He continued to recommend that Democrats would steal the election from Trump, a declare that he has shared repeatedly in current months. He additionally repeated allegations that voting machines are unreliable.

He additionally accused Google of biasing search ends in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris. Earlier Tuesday, the search big’s response to queries about the place to vote for Harris displayed a map of polling locations, however an analogous question about Trump resulted in information articles.

Google stated that the map was displayed as a result of Harris’ identify was just like Harris County in Texas and that it will right the difficulty.