Elon Musk tried to make the most of the ability of his social media platform to push Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, posting that he believed the Republican would “exceed the polls” when the votes have been counted. But, Ramaswamy suspended his marketing campaign after profitable solely 7.7% of the votes and simply three delegates within the Iowa caucuses.
Ramaswamy ran as a extra rabid model of Donald Trump in an try to attraction to Trump voters, however they continue to be true to their Chosen One — the person indicted on 91 prison counts, who was additionally discovered answerable for each rape and fraud just lately.
Ramaswamy, who defended his repetition of debunked conspiracy theories about January sixth and the good substitute principle, claimed his marketing campaign had been about “truth” in his statement:
“This entire campaign is about speaking the TRUTH. We did not achieve our goal tonight & we need an America-First patriot in the White House. The people spoke loud & clear about who they want. Tonight I am suspending my campaign and endorsing Donald J. Trump and will do everything I can to make sure he is the next U.S. President. I am enormously proud of this team, this movement, and our country.”
Ramaswamy had promised to pardon Trump if elected president and posed with fans carrying “Save Trump, Vote Vivek” t-shirts.
Ramaswamy is alleged to share “values” with Elon Musk and mentioned in August of 2023 that if elected in 2024, he would run the federal government like Musk runs his corporations.
Elon has since been within the information being accused of doing illegal drugs and advised main advertisers to “Go f*ck yourself” throughout The New York Instances’ annual DealBook Summit after they left his social media platform attributable to its incapacity to make sure model security as a result of proliferation of neo-Nazis and different hate accounts.
Musk referred to advertisers selecting to spend cash elsewhere as “blackmail.” (It’s really capitalism in motion, however provided that Elon Musk’s corporations reap the benefits of taxpayer-funded subsidies, he may not perceive the idea as a lot as his Libertarian supporters want to imagine.)
The billionaire proprietor of X/Twitter, who sees himself as some sort of political pundit now, has amplified racist assaults on Black folks in latest days after making a scandal for amplifying antisemitic posts on his embattled social media platform “X” (really referred to as Twitter). Musk opined in response to low ballot numbers for Ramaswamy a number of days in the past: “My guess is that Vivek will far exceed the polls when the votes are counted.”
Elon didn’t depart it there. He additionally wrote on Sunday “I think you’re right” to an account posting: “I truly believe this Monday @VivekGRamaswamy is going to shock the world. This is going to be a major win for the country.”
Beforehand, Elon Musk amplified Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, who launched his marketing campaign on Musk’s platform, in what turned out to be an embarrassing fail tech-wise.
The actual fact is Vivek Ramaswamy by no means had an opportunity with Trump supporters, due to his name and the color of his skin. However his message of ruling the nation like a ruthless enterprise one who possibly does unlawful medicine and will get by on taxpayer subsidies whereas attempting to sue the labor board (NLRB) after being accused of attempting to silence essential staff and paying off a flight attendant $250,000 for one thing Musk claims he didn’t do didn’t appear to resonate, both. To be truthful, that message simply sounds higher to the fascist-inclined when coming from a white man who has established a historical past of getting away with prison conduct.
Success in expertise doesn’t, it seems, have any relationship to understanding voters. Nonetheless, it’s instructive that Elon Musk can’t transfer the needle, not to mention even guess how lower than 100,000 of his favored White folks will vote, but thinks he can drive a various nation made up of 330 million plus folks to vote as he sees match, all as a result of he purchased Twitter.
Whereas the pro-fascist experiment of X pushing far Proper propaganda is working to silence democratic actions and collective consciousness of injustices, it’s not working by way of selecting candidates.
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