{"id":1479853,"date":"2022-05-18T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479853"},"modified":"2022-05-18T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:30:21","slug":"elon-musk-reveals-why-he-will-no-longer-vote-for-democrats-and-will-vote-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-reveals-why-he-will-no-longer-vote-for-democrats-and-will-vote-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Reveals Why He Will No Longer Vote For Democrats And Will 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\">30<\/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-reveals-why-he-will-no-longer-vote-for-democrats-and-will-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=1479853&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\/05\/EMBS-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk followed up Wednesday to remarks that he made earlier in the week about voting Republican in the upcoming election, saying that he could no longer vote for the Democratic Party because it had become consumed with hate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically \u2013 overwhelmingly,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-announces-hes-switching-to-vote-republican\">said<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cLike, I\u2019m not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear. Now this election, I will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk said Democrats were controlled by unions, which he said was \u201cjust another form of monopoly,\u201d and class-action lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Musk explained on Wednesday why he voted for Democrats in previous elections and why he can no longer support them moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party,\u201d Musk tweeted. \u201cBut they have become the party of division &#038; hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican. Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.<\/p>\n<p>But they have become the party of division &#038; hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold \u2026 \ud83c\udf7f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1526997132858822658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk weighed in on the 2024 presidential election last week, taking shots at both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though I think a less divisive candidate would be better in 2024, I still think Trump should be restored to Twitter,\u201d Musk wrote on Twitter, later adding: \u201cBiden\u2019s mistake is that he thinks he was elected to transform the country, but actually everyone just wanted less drama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk has dominated the news cycle over the past several weeks after his offer to purchase Twitter for $44 billion was unanimously approved by Twitter\u2019s Board of Directors. However, Musk recently said that the deal had been put \u201con hold\u201d until he got more information about what percentage of accounts on the platform are spam accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has repeatedly gone after the political Left in recent years for a variety of issues ranging from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/seven-times-elon-musk-slammed-democrats-left-wing-policies-this-year\">policy<\/a> to wokeness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Wokeness] is a prevalent mind virus, and arguably one of the biggest threats to modern civilization,\u201d Musk said late last year. \u201cAt its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a reason, it gives them a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk followed up Wednesday to remarks that he made earlier in the week about voting Republican in the upcoming election, saying that he could no longer vote for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1481271,"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-1479853","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\/1479853","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}