{"id":1517243,"date":"2022-06-15T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517243"},"modified":"2022-06-15T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:50:38","slug":"elon-musk-votes-republican-for-first-time-predicts-red-wave-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-votes-republican-for-first-time-predicts-red-wave-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Votes Republican for First Time, Predicts \u2018Red Wave\u2019 in November"},"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\">24<\/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-votes-republican-for-first-time-predicts-red-wave-in-november%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=1517243&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<p>Billionaire Elon Musk, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/dec\/04\/elon-musk-trolling-us-conservatives-green-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive darling<\/a>\u00a0during the Obama administration, on Wednesday announced that he voted Republican\u2014and predicted a &#8220;massive red wave in 2022.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who owns electric carmaker Tesla and is in negotiations to buy Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1536973965394157569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> that he voted for Republican Mayra Flores, who on Tuesday won a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/heres-why-the-south-texas-special-election-spells-doom-for-dems-in-november\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massive upset victory<\/a> in a special election in Texas&#8217;s 34th Congressional District. Flores managed to flip a majority-Latino, longtime-Democratic district by enough votes that she will automatically take the seat, becoming the first Mexican-born U.S. congresswoman.<\/p>\n<p>Musk pointed to Flores&#8217;s victory as one more piece of evidence for a &#8220;massive red wave&#8221; in this year\u2019s midterm elections. He&#8217;s far from the only person to predict an enormous Republican victory this year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/i-dont-know-how-much-worse-it-can-get-democrats-turn-on-biden-as-poll-numbers-plummet-yet-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multiple<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/spoiled-narrative-just-weeks-after-white-house-said-polls-were-on-upswing-biden-more-unpopular-than-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls<\/a>\u00a0have found historic unpopularity for President Joe Biden, whose <i>RealClearPolitics<\/i> polling average sits at just 43.8 percent, and the Democratic Party. Election forecasters, meanwhile, keep <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/dems-keep-hoping-their-midterm-chances-are-getting-better-election-forecasters-say-theyre-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predicting<\/a>\u00a0electoral oblivion for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Flores&#8217;s victory is also another sign that Hispanic voters have turned on the Democratic Party and are voting Republican. Nearly 60 percent of Latinos disapprove of Biden&#8217;s performance, a Quinnipiac poll <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/guns\/support-for-assault-weapon-ban-is-lowest-ever-recorded-poll-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n<p>Musk also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1536976484446904320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1536976484446904320%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2022%2F06%2F15%2Fmusk-leaning-toward-voting-for-florida-gov-ron-desantis-for-president-2024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that he is &#8220;leaning towards&#8221; voting in the 2024 presidential election for Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who remains widely popular in the Sunshine State after media outlets blasted him for what they inaccurately called the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8221; bill.<\/p>\n<p>Musk said last month that he &#8220;can no longer support&#8221; Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have become the party of division and hate,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1526997132858822658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk, a progressive darling\u00a0during the Obama administration, on Wednesday announced that he voted Republican\u2014and predicted a &#8220;massive red wave in 2022.&#8221; Musk, who owns electric carmaker Tesla and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517243","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\/1517243","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517243\/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=1517243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}