Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday claimed he will fund moderate primary challenges to incumbent Democrats in heavy-blue districts around the country.



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Musk says he’ll fund ‘moderate’ Democratic primary challengers

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday claimed he will fund moderate primary challenges to incumbent Democrats in heavy-blue districts around the country. “Oh … forgot to mention that I’m also going to be funding moderate candidates in heavily Democrat districts, so that the country can get rid of those who don’t represent them, like this…

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Elon Musk, a tech billionaire and close ally of President-elect Donald Trump, recently said he would continue his efforts to influence government agencies broadly to fund moderate primary challengers to incumbent Democrats in deep blue states. In a post on X-platform in response to a video by Democratic Congressman Richard Neal, he said: "Forgot to mention that I will also fund moderate candidates in hard-hit Democratic areas so that the country…

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Elon Musk said he intends to fund moderate challengers in Democratic primary races, with his pledge coming in response to criticism from a Democrat lawmaker that the tech mogul is using his massive reach on social media to have an outsized influence on American politics.
Musk has been using X, the social media platform that he owns, to voice his opinions on federal programs, policies, and legislation that he opposes.
In a flurry of X posts in re…

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Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) dismissed Elon Musk’s threat to fund “moderate” primary challengers to Democrats following the budget battle on Capitol Hill. Earlier this week, the tech billionaire said he will fund “moderate” candidates in deep blue Democrat districts across the country following an intense debate over the recent government spending bill. “Oh … forgot to mention that I’m also going to be funding moderate candidates in heavily Democrat …

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