Elon Musk Scrubs Posts as He Crashes Out Over GOP Election Disaster
The world’s richest man blew nearly $500 million on the midterm elections. He’s not coping well.
It appears that Elon Musk was so embarrassed by the shellacking that Republicans received in the midterms on Tuesday that he deleted his Election Day post endorsing the party.
Musk, the world’s richest man, spent $474 million on Republican campaigns. On Tuesday, he posted “Vote red today!” on X. Then, he deleted it. His own AI chatbot, Grok, confirmed the post was scrubbed.
“He hasn’t said why. Archives and multiple reports confirm the Election Day ‘Vote red today!’ post (plus an earlier pinned one urging Republican Senate votes) were removed after results showed major GOP losses, including Texas races he heavily funded,” Grok wrote online. “Other recent pro-GOP posts and RTs remain visible.”
The election results must have been incredibly alarming for Musk, who has dumped nearly $1 billion dollars into influencing U.S. elections in the past two years. And even more troubling for him is that the base of his business operations—both SpaceX and Tesla—are located in Texas. Musk chose to flee to Texas from California, believ...