{"id":1614765,"date":"2022-08-18T13:12:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1614765"},"modified":"2022-08-18T13:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:12:46","slug":"elon-musk-huddled-with-gop-leaders-and-donors-heres-what-he-told-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-huddled-with-gop-leaders-and-donors-heres-what-he-told-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Huddled With GOP Leaders And Donors. Here\u2019s What He Told Them"},"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\">26<\/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-huddled-with-gop-leaders-and-donors-heres-what-he-told-them%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=1614765&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/elon-musk-scaled-e1657566037527.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with Republican Party leaders and donors in Wyoming Tuesday, saying the GOP needed to look more compassionate, according to Axios.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, a personal friend of Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, said in response to a question from another attendee that Republicans needed to appeal more to immigrants, Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/08\/18\/elon-musk-republican-retreat-kevin-mccarthy\">reported<\/a>. He attended the gathering as a guest of McCarthy, the Republican leader in the House of Representatives. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/28\/tory-nehls-elon-musk-tesla-ev-grid\/\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Asks Elon Musk For Help Running Power Grid As Americans Buy More EVs)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">To be clear, I support the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democratic Party!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1559690651687608321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear, I support the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democratic Party!\u201d Musk tweeted Tuesday, shortly before apparently joking about buying Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees at the retreat in Wyoming heard Musk warn about the dangers of socialism and praise free-market capitalism in his remarks. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO reportedly complained about an $11 billion tax bill from the sale of some Tesla stock while at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/15\/elon-musk-mayra-flores-musks-first-republican\/\">voted<\/a> for Republican Rep. Mayra Flores of Texas, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/08\/18\/elon-musk-republican-retreat-kevin-mccarthy\">won<\/a> a special election in June to replace Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela, who resigned to take a job as a lobbyist. Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/18\/elon-musk-democrats-party-division-hate\/\">tweeted<\/a> that the Democratic Party had become \u201cthe party of division and hate\u201d in May.<\/p>\n<p>Musk and McCarthy did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with Republican Party leaders and donors in Wyoming Tuesday, saying the GOP needed to look more compassionate, according to Axios.Musk, a personal friend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-1614765","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\/1614765","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614765\/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=1614765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}