Musk Takes Center Stage in Trump's Campaign

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Trump has announced that he would be appointing the 53-year-old South Africa-born entrepreneur as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, which he has proposed to reduce federal spending...reports Asian Lite NewsElon Musk, the world's richest person, has emerged as both a surrogate for Donald Trump and a lightning rod for the Republican's campaign.
47% : But in many of his campaign speeches, Trump has ridiculed the performance of electric cars, which provided the liftoff to Musk's other enterprises, because President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have ensured tax breaks for those buying it as a way of fighting climate change.
43% : Trump and Musk share the ideologies of laissez-faire capitalism and of reducing the scope of government (while also benefitting from it), but they also have some personal parallels -- they are both much married, three times each, although Musk divorced his third wife; they have been sued for sexual harassment, and they both are known for their vulgarity.
42% : Trump has announced that he would be appointing the 53-year-old South Africa-born entrepreneur as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, which he has proposed to reduce federal spending.
41% : A bundle of nervous energy who prances on stage like a kid, the eccentric entrepreneur has been campaigning for Trump in Pennsylvania, a state crucial for victory, holding rallies where politics mixes with far-out science and artificial intelligence.
30% : The committee, which has attracted contributions from other businesspeople, is organisating house-to-house campaigns, promoting voter registration, and running advertising for Trump and against Harris.
21% : Musk, who bought Twitter for about $45 billion in 2022 and renamed it X, allowed Trump who had been banned from it back on and loosened restrictions on postings asserting that it was in the cause of free speech.
20% : Musk is donating $200 million to a political action committee, America PAC, that he has set up to help Trump's victory, using a legal loophole that permits it as long as there is no direct link to candidate Trump.

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