Elon Musk is said to have met with former President Trump in Florida. Chesnot/Getty Images
Elon Musk says he won’t donate to Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
The New York Times reports that Trump met with Musk while he was looking for money for his campaign.
Right now, Biden’s campaign has a financial advantage over Trump’s.
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Billionaire Elon Musk wrote on Wednesday morning that he would not donate anything to “either presidential candidate.” Previously, the “New York Times” reports that Musk met with Trump in Florida.
“Just to be clear, I will not be donating money to either candidate for president,” wrote Musk on X. Musk’s refusal is not particularly surprising. Despite the Telsa CEO’s enormous wealth, he has never achieved megadonor status in American politics. Still, Trump’s meeting with the tech mogul came at a time when the former president was still on the hunt for campaign donations.
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For now, President Joe Biden’s campaign still has an advantage over Trump’s. The fact that the former president relies on political action committees to fund his legal fees hasn’t helped matters either.
Musk has repeatedly attacked Biden after admitting he voted for the president in 2020. Last year, Elon Musk was also coy when asked if that meant he would support Trump in 2024. “I wouldn’t vote for Biden,” Musk told journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin at a New York Times event. “I’m not saying I would vote for Trump.”
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley’s decision to suspend her campaign on Tuesday means both major parties have now effectively selected their candidates, although voting will still go ahead in some states.
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Aside from Trump and Biden, a number of third-party candidates are expected to run in 2024. This is said to include the well-known vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr. Elon Musk hosted an audio chat on Twitter last summer in which Kennedy, then the Democratic presidential candidate, had his say.
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