Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur and inventor, founder of companies such as Tesla, Paypal, Space X and Open AI. Currently, he is the owner of the social network X and in 2021 he was named the richest man in the world.
Despite being of South African origin, the tycoon also has American and Canadian nationality, which is why he will actively participate in the 2024 United States presidential elections.
In this sense, The 53-year-old businessman is known for leaning toward the Republican Party. and support Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement. In fact, he plans to wait for the results of the elections next to the former president, at his residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
According to sources close to the businessman, cited by the New York Times and ABC television, Musk is among the close guests who will wait for the vote count at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach.
The former president’s campaign has hosted several events in Palm Beach, with varying levels of exclusivity, including a dinner for a small number of donors at Mar-a-Lago and an even smaller gathering for those who will be hanging out with him overnight. , according to the New York newspaper.
Trump also plans to appear at an event at the Palm Beach Convention Center later in the evening, where MAGA supporters have been waiting for him since early afternoon.
Musk has spent at least $119 million on a super PAC that supports the Republican in organizing events on his behalf in the key “hinge” state of Pennsylvania.
In addition, the businessman accompanied Trump this month at the symbolic rally that the former president held in the small town of Butler, Pennsylvania, the same place where he was almost assassinated on July 13.
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Trump voted with his wife, Melania Trump, this morning at a Palm Beach voting center, where he was accompanied by the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giulliani.
“We are doing very well in Georgia (hinge state) and in all places,” Trump said before the media accompanied by the first lady at the voting center in this city where his luxurious Mar-a-Lago complex is located.
Despite complaining about the probable delay and wait in computing the election results, Trump stated that, “if it is a fair election”, He will be the first to recognize the results, although he did not go into specifying or developing that concept.
When asked by journalists, the former president explained that Starting at 5:00 p.m. local time (22:00 GMT) at his Mar-a-lago residence, he will receive some four or five thousand people to follow the scrutiny and projections of the results, among whom is Musk.
Regarding the behavior of his followers and how they would react to an eventual adverse result, the former president said that he does not plan to transmit any guidelines to them because, he noted, “They are not violent people.”
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