“It appears that Elon Musk was so embarrassed by the shellacking that Republicans received in the midterms on Tuesday that he deleted his Election Day post endorsing the party,” the New Republic reports.
“Musk, the world’s richest man, spent $474 million on Republican campaigns. On Tuesday, he posted ‘Vote red today!’ on X. Then he deleted it. His own artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, confirmed the post was scrubbed.”
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