A CNN panel acknowledged where Democrats had botched their relationship with Elon Musk and admitted they should have celebrated him.
The Tesla billionaire and SpaceX boss has thrown his support behind Donald Trump this election season, even appearing on stage with him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, just three months after the former president survived an assassination attempt.
Musk admitted his established views on Vice President Kamala Harris, who Musk said was trash-talking nonstop during the presidential campaign, during a recent interview with Tucker Carlson.
During a panel discussion on CNN NewsNight with Abby Philips, California Congressman Ro Khanna and left-wing podcaster Kara Swisher admitted that Democrats had made a mistake by losing Musk’s support.
“I think the fact that Democrats started losing Elon was actually personal. We should have celebrated his contributions to electric vehicles even though he was against unionization,” Khanna said.
A CNN panel acknowledged where Democrats had botched their relationship with Elon Musk
Elon Musk has thrown his support behind Donald Trump this election season and even stood on stage with him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania
“We should have said, look, Starlink, great product that should be used. We should celebrate the fact that he had the first commercial success of private humans in space. I think a lot of it was because we weren’t celebrating and he felt offended.”
Philips asked if there was a specific moment when Democrats lost Musk. Swisher said that was when he was turned down an invitation to President Joe Biden’s 2021 electric vehicle summit.
‘Yes, I got a call from him about it when he wasn’t invited to that EV summit. He should have been invited. I called the White House – I never call the White House – and I was like, ‘Why didn’t you invite him? He’s very angry,'” Swisher said.
‘I thought: he is crucial in this sector. I think the union thing was the main reason why they didn’t invite them and they should have. He deserved that honor.”
Musk’s appearance at Trump’s rally in Butler marked the first time he took the stage at a political rally.
Elon Musk told Tucker Carlson that if Kamala Harris wins the election I’m ‘f***ed’ and predicts the vice president will send him to jail
The billionaire was inspired to publicly support Trump after the failed assassination attempt on the former president at Butler on July 13.
He told Carlson that if Harris wins the election, “I’m damned” and predicted the vice president would send him to prison.
“If he loses, I’m sucked,” he said. ‘How long do you think my prison sentence will last? Will I see my children? Don’t know.’
He also joked that Biden and Harris have not had public assassination attempts because it would be “senseless.”
Musk said, “No one bothers to kill Kamala because it’s pointless. What do you achieve? Just another puppet.”