{"id":1497846,"date":"2022-05-31T08:46:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497846"},"modified":"2022-05-31T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:46:08","slug":"elon-musk-reaffirms-switch-from-democrat-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-reaffirms-switch-from-democrat-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Reaffirms Switch From Democrat Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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-reaffirms-switch-from-democrat-party%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=1497846&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--><p>The world\u2019s richest person has restated his intention to vote Republican after years of voting for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>In a thread of Twitter posts on Memorial Day, Tesla and SpaceX CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> said he will vote for the Republican Party in the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a Twitter user who alleged,\u00a0\u201cYou don\u2019t care about freedom, Elon. If you did you wouldn\u2019t be supporting Donald Trump,\u201d Musk\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1531297810758389760\">said<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cI support free speech, but not any one candidate. In fact, I gave money to &#038; voted for Hillary &#038; then voted for Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, given unprovoked attacks by leading Democrats against me &#038; a very cold shoulder to Tesla &#038; SpaceX, I intend to vote Republican in November,\u201d Musk continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I support free speech, but not any one candidate. In fact, I gave money to &#038; voted for Hillary &#038; then voted for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>However, given unprovoked attacks by leading Democrats against me &#038; a very cold shoulder to Tesla &#038; SpaceX, I intend to vote Republican in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1531297810758389760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk\u2019s remarks provided further insight into statements he made at a recent tech conference, during which he said he will vote Republican and expressed discontent with \u201ccancel culture\u201d and the \u201cfar-left bias\u201d allegedly prevalent on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically, overwhelmingly. Like I\u2019m not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear,\u201d Musk said in the video of the conference posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CnxzrX9tNoc&#038;t=154s\">All-In Podcast<\/a> on May 16. \u201cNow, this election, I will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear then whether Musk referred to the 2022 midterms or the 2024 presidential election. His Memorial Day post clarified that by \u201cthis election,\u201d he is referring to the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO has increasingly leveled criticism at the Democratic Party\u2019s shift further to the left, labeling it as the party of \u201cdivision\u201d and \u201chate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party,\u201d Musk wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1526997132858822658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a>\u00a0on May 18. \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 \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk has also taken aim at the Biden administration, contending that Washington is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1527631187635687425\">sidelining<\/a> Tesla in favor of legacy automotive producers, despite Tesla\u2019s contribution to the electric vehicles industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, Biden held this EV summit \u2026 didn\u2019t invite Tesla. Invited GM, Ford, Chrysler and UAW. An EV summit on the White House! Didn\u2019t mention Tesla once, and praised GM and Ford for leading the EV revolution,\u201d Musk said in a September speech he delivered at the <a href=\"https:\/\/app.qwoted.com\/opportunities\/event-code-conference-2021\">Code Conference<\/a> in Beverly Hills, California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, the public has no idea how much Tesla and SpaceX have been attacked\/undermined, because we aren\u2019t unionized (yet offer highest pay in industry!) and this administration would rather a company be dead than not unionized,\u201d Musk wrote in a May 30 tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire, who has long been the target of Democrats\u2019 criticism, said political attacks from the left have increased since announcing his bid to acquire Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats who have previously picked a quarrel with Musk, directly and indirectly, include Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1459584250668331011\">demanded<\/a> \u201cthe extremely wealthy\u201d to \u201cpay their fair share; Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWarren\/status\/1470415896053227522\">called<\/a> for changing the tax code \u201cso The Person of the Year,\u201d referring to Musk, \u201cwill actually pay taxes\u201d; and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1520111152411389954\">said<\/a> Musk is a \u201cbillionaire with an ego problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk has responded to these high-profile in various ways, including jokingly telling Sanders that he will sell more Tesla shares, responding to Warren that he paid more taxes \u201cthan any American in history\u201d in 2021, and challenging\u2014and winning over\u2014Ocasio-Cortez in a popularity poll on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Want me to sell more stock, Bernie? Just say the word \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1459904966194253824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">And if you opened your eyes for 2 seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any American in history this year<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1470898920146542592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@aoc<\/a> I dare you to run the same poll with your followers<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1529975997356990464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-gary-bai\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gary Bai is a reporter for Epoch Times Canada, covering China and U.S. news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s richest person has restated his intention to vote Republican after years of voting for the Democratic Party.In a thread of Twitter posts on Memorial Day, Tesla and SpaceX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1894311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497846","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}