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Trump defeats Harris by landslide in Musk’s poll on X | Trump defeats Harris by landslide in Musk’s poll on X |
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The billionaire ran his own “super unscientific” vote on his social media platform | The billionaire ran his own “super unscientific” vote on his social media platform |
Former US President and Republican nominee Donald Trump has resoundingly beaten his Democrat rival Kamala Harris in an online poll conducted by billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter). | |
Harris accepted her party’s official nomination earlier in August after President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race; she later tapped Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate. | |
On Tuesday, Musk posted “Since a lot of people have asked, here goes a super unscientific poll.” | |
According to the results as of Wednesday, of the 5.8 million votes, almost three quarters of respondents indicated they would vote for Trump in November, while just over a quarter want to see Harris elected. | |
Last week Musk interviewed Trump on his X Spaces platform, where they engaged in “unscripted” dialogue with “no limits,” according to Musk; the interview has garnered more than 275 million views to date. | |
Trump later told Reuters that he would consider Musk for a role in his administration. “If he would do it, I certainly would. He’s a brilliant guy,” he said. | |
Musk, replying later on X, wrote that he is “willing to serve.” | Musk, replying later on X, wrote that he is “willing to serve.” |
During the interview Trump called Harris “third rate,” “incompetent” and a “left lunatic.” The Harris campaign issued a fiery response, denouncing Trump’s “extremism and dangerous agenda,” and decrying “self-obsessed rich guys who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.” According to Musk, the stream was subjected to a large-scale DDoS (dedicated denial of service) attack, leading to technical problems. | |
According to polling averages posted by The New York Times, as of Wednesday, Harris leads Trump by two percent in two swing states: Wisconsin and Michigan. Meanwhile, Trump leads by four percent in Georgia. Both candidates are about even in Arizona and Pennsylvania, according to the newspaper’s poll collation data. | |
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