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Elon Musk is ramping up his public assist of Donald Trump, telling Tucker Carlson in a dialog streamed Monday that he’s “all in” on the Republican presidential candidate.
After showing alongside Trump at a weekend rally, the world’s richest man used a comfy two-hour chat with Carlson to push right-wing speaking factors, together with what he stated was the risk to democracy if Democrat Kamala Harris prevails in November’s election.
“My view is that if Trump would not win this election, it is the final election we’ll have,” the Tesla and SpaceX boss instructed former Fox Information host Carlson.
Musk, who has more and more courted controversy lately, stated he believed “illegals” — migrants — had been being intentionally transported to a handful of key states, the place if they’re ultimately granted citizenship, they’ll develop into Democrat voters.
“Now these swing-state margins are generally ten- twenty-thousand votes. So what occurs in case you put a whole lot of 1000’s of individuals into every swing state?
“So my prediction is, if there’s one other 4 years of a Dem administration, they’ll legalize so many illegals that… the subsequent election there will not be any swing states, and this might be a single-party nation.”
The assertions from Musk — who’s himself from South Africa — are a standard chorus on the political proper, which alleges a conspiracy between Democrats and immigrants.
Musk is more and more turning into a surrogate for Trump on the marketing campaign path and is reportedly planning to make plenty of stops in battleground states within the coming weeks.
Over the weekend, he unveiled a program promising to pay $47 to anybody who registers voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Michigan.
The scheme is seeking to copy profitable referral applications the South African-born entrepreneur has used up to now along with his Tesla electrical automobiles.
In his practically two-hour chat with Carlson, wherein the 2 males chuckled repeatedly at one another’s pronouncements, Musk stated he had thrown his full backing behind fellow billionaire Trump.
“If he loses, it will be arduous so that you can fake you by no means supported him,” stated Carlson.
“I am like, all in, child,” replied Musk.
“How lengthy do you assume my jail sentence is gonna be?” he chortled, laughing at the concept that the tables would flip towards him below a Democratic administration. “Will I see my youngsters? I do not know.”
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