{"id":1517337,"date":"2022-06-15T13:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517337"},"modified":"2022-06-15T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:34:24","slug":"i-welcome-support-from-african-americans-desantis-responds-to-hint-from-elon-musk-about-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-welcome-support-from-african-americans-desantis-responds-to-hint-from-elon-musk-about-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Welcome Support From African Americans\u2019: DeSantis Responds To Hint From Elon Musk About 2024"},"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%2Fi-welcome-support-from-african-americans-desantis-responds-to-hint-from-elon-musk-about-2024%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=1517337&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>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to Elon Musk\u2019s hint about supporting him in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/15\/elon-musk-hints-support-desantis-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> Wednesday that he is leaning towards supporting DeSantis for president in the next election. He voted Republican for the first time by casting his <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/15\/elon-musk-mayra-flores-musks-first-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vote<\/a> for Texas Representative-elect Mayra Flores in Tuesday\u2019s special election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what I would say [is] that I\u2019m focused on 2022, but with Elon Musk what I would say is I welcome support from African Americans. What can I say?\u201d DeSantis said at a press conference Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Musk was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notablebiographies.com\/news\/Li-Ou\/Musk-Elon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">born<\/a> and raised in South Africa and immigrated to Canada in his late teens. He attended Queen\u2019s University in Kingston, one of Ontario\u2019s top universities, before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania. He became a <a href=\"https:\/\/provscons.com\/how-did-elon-musk-become-a-us-citizen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">naturalized<\/a> U.S. citizen in 2002. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/28\/elon-musk-viral-tweet-political-views-shift-2008-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Elon Musk Indicates His Political Views Haven\u2019t Changed, Liberals Have Just Gone Way Too Far To The Left)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tech billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/17\/elon-musk-voting-republican-not-democrat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> he planned to vote Republican in 2022, saying the Democratic Party is controlled by the unions and by trial lawyers during his appearance on a May 17 \u201cAll In\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear,\u201d Musk said. \u201cNow this election, I will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The following day, he called Democrats the party of \u201cdivision and hate\u201d and suggested they will launch \u201cdirty campaign tricks\u201d against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party,\u201d Musk said. \u201cBut they have become the party of division and hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican. Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\">\n<p>Liberal figures <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/14\/liberals-decry-free-speech-elon-musk-offers-buy-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decried<\/a> Musk\u2019s $43.4 billion deal with Twitter to purchase the platform in April, arguing the social media company needs to increase their monitoring of misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\">\n<p>\u201cHe seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less,\u201d Washington Post columnist Max Boot <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBoot\/status\/1514570168730636290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in an April 14 tweet.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC host\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/joy-reid-elon-musk-misses-old-south-africa-1980s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joy Reid<\/a> claimed Musk misses the \u201cold South Africa of the \u201980s\u201d by wanting to allow supporters of former President Donald Trump back onto the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a time when people had the double hashtags around their names because they were Jewish and right-wingers were saying \u2018get in the oven\u2019 anytime you made any benign comment on Twitter. They attacked women, the misogyny was crazy on Twitter for a while. Elon Musk, I guess he misses the old South Africa in the \u201980s, he wants that back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/19\/ron-desantis-vows-hold-twitter-board-accountable-poison-pill-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vowed<\/a> to hold Twitter board members accountable for imposing the \u201cpoison pill\u201d to prevent Musk from taking over Twitter. The \u201cpoison pill\u201d also allows for shareholders to buy more stock at a cheaper price and potentially dilute Musk\u2019s ownership stake to prevent him from purchasing the entire company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s probably an injury to the fund, so we\u2019re going to be looking at ways that the state of Florida potentially can be holding these Twitter board of directors accountable for breaching their fiduciary duty,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Gov. 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