{"id":1502603,"date":"2022-06-03T13:34:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T17:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502603"},"modified":"2022-06-03T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T17:34:47","slug":"elon-musk-endorses-real-estate-mogul-rick-caruso-for-la-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-endorses-real-estate-mogul-rick-caruso-for-la-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Endorses Real Estate Mogul Rick Caruso For LA Mayor"},"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\">22<\/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-endorses-real-estate-mogul-rick-caruso-for-la-mayor%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=1502603&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><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk endorsed billionaire Rick Caruso for Los Angeles mayor Friday morning in a rare move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLos Angeles is fortunate to have someone like Rick Caruso running for mayor. He\u2019s awesome,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1532710931590959104?s=20&#038;t=CuogC3FeZyY-pI-bF6lJMA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Musk wrote<\/a>. He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1532715028742385668?s=20&#038;t=CuogC3FeZyY-pI-bF6lJMA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added<\/a> in a second tweet, \u201cIt is rare for me to endorse political candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Los Angeles is fortunate to have someone like Rick Caruso running for mayor. He\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1532710931590959104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/25\/hart-musk-leaves-democrat-plantation-expects-retribution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced he is no longer a Democrat<\/a>, described himself as \u201cmoderate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy political leanings are moderate, so neither fully Republican nor Democrat, which I am confident is the case for most Americans,\u201d Musk said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/28\/elon-musk-tweets-depp-heard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a0Elon Musk Speaks Up About The Depp\/Heard Debacle)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caruso is running for Los Angeles mayor as a Democrat, but was a registered Republican three years ago. Caruso\u2019s platform is focused on reducing the city\u2019s crime problem, and it <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/11\/los-angeles-mayor-rick-caruso-karen-bass-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may be spelling political success<\/a> for the mayoral candidate. In April, Caruso was polling at 24%, ahead of his opponents California Rep. Karen Bass and City Council Member Kevin de Le\u00f3n, polling at 23% and 6%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExecutive competence is super underrated in politics \u2013 we should care about that a lot more!\u201d Musk said in his tweet endorsing Caruso.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk endorsed billionaire Rick Caruso for Los Angeles mayor Friday morning in a rare move.\u201cLos Angeles is fortunate to have someone like Rick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":644,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1502603","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\/1502603","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\/644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}