Right Now, Elon Musk Seems to Be Trump's VP -- Not JD Vance

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Now the outside funder is on the inside, and he brings an outsized intellect that -- if he chooses -- comprehends the complexity of the world in a way that eludes Trump, a master of instant gratification.
58% : That was then, and this is now, and the new alliances that are forming around Trump -- with Musk the most fascinating figure at their center -- hold promise that we cannot afford to overlook.
49% : It's Musk who's hanging at Mar-a-Lago as Trump makes important calls to leaders and plots his cabinet picks.
49% : The climate conference COP 29 just getting underway now in in Baku, Azerbaijan lays bare the challenge ahead if Trump pulls out again as expected from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
41% : He got into the EV business because of his worries about fossil fuels, and Space X because he wanted a back-up planet should efforts to combat climate change fail.
40% : He said in a clip that aired on Fox News that he and his wife, Usha, lost friends over his alliance with Trump.
39% : Trump proclaimed himself the "father of IVF" at a Fox town hall with Republican women in the battleground state of Georgia.
35% : As Trump puts together his team for a second go at being president, proximity is power -- and it's not his official VP pick JD Vance who's on the premises and weighing the choices.
33% : Unlikely to join Trump's government -- he has too many conflicts of interest -- he suggested Trump create an efficiency commission to trim $2 trillion from the federal budget.
22% : It's Musk who is Trump's real partner, not Vance, who we haven't heard much from as Trump gets that rarest of opportunities -- a do-over presidency.
22% : It was a national trauma that we collectively forgot and never held Trump accountable for his lies and lack of leadership in confronting what he knew was coming.

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