Democrats, media allies push talking point that Elon Musk is truly incoming president instead of Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party.
56% : "Elon Musk is around Trump all the time.
52% : And he's also getting credit for having power over Congress, over Trump.
42% : "As soon as President Trump released his official stance on the CR, Republicans on Capitol Hill echoed his point of view.
41% : How does that sit with Trump?
38% : Trump is just his errand boy," Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisc., wrote on Musk's X.Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., posted on Wednesday that it is "clear who's in charge" of the party -- and it's not Trump.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE"Shadow President Elon Musk spent all day railing against Republicans' CR, succeeded in killing the bill, and then Trump decided to follow his lead," she wrote on X.Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., echoed the claim later that night, telling MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell that it was not Trump who asked for the spending bill to be killed, but rather "President" Elon Musk.Trump adamantly opposed the bill on Wednesday through a series of posts on Truth Social.
37% : "Jen Psaki expressed a similar sentiment on the network, suggesting that Musk may begin to "outshine" Trump and inadvertently draw the scorn of the president-elect.
34% : CNN commentator David Axelrod highlighted competing visions between Musk and Trump about the spending bill during a Wednesday appearance on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360.""What was confusing to me is Musk sends out one of his tweets, and he says no one should do anything until January 20th, when Trump gets there; Trump sends out a tweet saying they ought to pass a clean CR with a debt ceiling -- raising the debt ceiling because ... he doesn't want to be blamed for it," he said.
33% : House GOP leaders are working toward a backup plan after an initial bipartisan deal to avoid a partial government shutdown was killed by conservative opposition led by Musk, Trump's pick to co-chair his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), alongside Vivek Ramaswamy.
33% : I don't know how Trump feels about that.
13% : After Joy Behar suggested that Musk and Vice President-elect JD Vance may be colluding against Trump, Goldberg took it a step further and joked the pair may be conspiring to kill the incoming president.

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