COLUMNS_ Elon Musk Leads Parade of Tech Titans Boosting Trump as the True 'Freedom Candidate'

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Elon Musk Leads Parade of Tech Titans Boosting Trump as the True 'Freedom Candidate'

Betsy McCaughey | Aug 28, 2024

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A shocking partisan switch is underway in the stratosphere of the tech titans: The industry known for its wokeness is betting big bucks on a Republican.

Last week former President Donald Trump gave a thumbs up to the notion of teaming up with billionaire innovator Elon Musk if he wins in November. Hours later, Musk posted a message on X: "I am willing to serve."

Elon Musk for commerce secretary? Or perhaps for the newly created position of free speech czar?

Whether or not Musk actually joins a Trump administration -- Trump himself said Sunday that the mogul is likely too busy to do so but could "consult" -- his bold steps to back the Republican signal a turnaround.

Musk voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. Yet last month he launched a pro-Trump super PAC, which he and several other tech moguls are funding -- even though Trump would likely remove federal subsidies for electric vehicles, a major Musk industry, if he wins a second term.

Investor and "Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban called the phenomenon of tech bosses boosting Trump "insane."

Not really: While Democrats strove mightily last week to push "freedom" as the theme of their convention, tech leaders are betting that freedom of speech, freedom to innovate and freedom from crushing government regulations and confiscatory taxes are more likely in a Trump reign than in a Kamala Harris administration.

Among those Silicon Valley heavyweights is Nicole Shanahan, who was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate.

"I would say that I trust the future of this country more under the leadership of Trump ... than I do of the Harrises," Shanahan said last week as Kennedy weighed his decision to back Trump in the race.

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