{"id":1478335,"date":"2022-05-17T14:29:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T18:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478335"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T18:29:57","slug":"elon-musk-announces-hes-switching-to-vote-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-announces-hes-switching-to-vote-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Announces He\u2019s Switching To Vote Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-announces-hes-switching-to-vote-republican%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478335&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1234657104.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk, admitting he had voted \u201coverwhelmingly\u201d for Democrats in the past, has changed his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is registered as an independent voter; he announced the switch over video link at a tech summit in Miami, Florida, hosted by the All-In podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically,\u201d Musk acknowledged. \u201cLike I\u2019m not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear. Now this election I will,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/elon-musk-vote-republican-election-twitter-1707224?utm_medium=Social&#038;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1652776218-1\">Newsweek<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s metamorphosis from voting Democrat to voting Republican could have been documented by actions over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, Musk issued two tweets tweaking the Left. The first likely confounded members of the Left confident that their support for attacks on America, whether physical (riots, looting) or philosophical (the 1619 project) was shared by everyone in the so-called center of the political spectrum. Musk tweeted, \u201cThe left is losing the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The left is losing the middle<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1287818109651431427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk followed 25 minutes later with another tweet attacking the father of communism, Karl Marx, writing succinctly, \u201cDas Kapital in a nutshell,\u201d followed by a picture of Marx with the statement in quasi-German, \u201cGib me dat for free.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Das Kapital in a nutshell <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mG44mMkitx\">pic.twitter.com\/mG44mMkitx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1287824348460593154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In May 2020, Musk famously tweeted, \u201cTake the red pill.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Take the red pill \ud83c\udf39<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1262076474565242880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the film \u201cThe Matrix,\u201d the hero, Neo, is offered a choice between a red pill and a blue pill; the red pill would free him from a dream-world imposed on humanity and let him see reality. Some conservatives aver that taking the \u201cred pill\u201d means for a former liberal or leftist to embrace the conservative philosophy. As an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/liberals-sick-of-the-alt-left-are-taking-the-red-pill\">opinion piece<\/a> in Fox News explained in 2017:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The mainstream media failed to see the rise of Donald Trump in 2016. Now it\u2019s overlooking another grassroots movement that may soon be of equal significance\u2014 the growing number of liberals \u201ctaking the red pill.\u201d People of all ages and ethnicities are posting YouTube videos describing \u201cred pill moments\u201d\u2014personal awakenings that have caused them to reject leftist narratives imbibed since childhood from friends, teachers, and the news and entertainment media.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In April, Musk expressed his repugnance for those who would address war by using catch-phrases or words rather than action, reacting to a nightclub in Berlin that posted the word \u201cPEACE\u201d in giant letters while the war between Ukraine and Russia raged on. Musk tweeted, \u201cThey wrote PEACE on the wall at Berghain! I refused enter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cPeace. Peace? I hate the word. Those who do care about peace (myself aspirationally included) don\u2019t need to hear it. And those who don\u2019t care about peace? Well \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Peace. Peace?  I hate the word. Those who do care about peace (myself aspirationally included) don\u2019t need to hear it. And those who don\u2019t care about peace? Well \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1510502229219938306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, admitting he had voted \u201coverwhelmingly\u201d for Democrats in the past, has changed his mind.Musk is registered as an independent voter; he announced the switch over video link at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1480338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}