Two days ago, US midterm elections started. Due to the serious confrontation between the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States, both sides are willing to spend a lot of money and compete with each other. Now, it will take some time before the results of this midterm election, which is known as the "most expensive in history", are revealed, but the trend of American public opinion seems to be not optimistic about the Democratic Party, that is, the party where President Biden is located.
The reasons why the Democratic Party’s election situation are worrying are many. However, the role of the famous "Internet celebrity" Musk, the super rich American, in the election is difficult to ignore.
As we all know, Musk has always been generous with speaking out on social media. Not long ago, he acquired Twitter and became a major shareholder. After
took over Twitter, Musk stated on Twitter: "Decentralization will limit the worst excessive behavior of both parties. Given that the president is a Democrat, I suggest that the congressional election vote for Republican ."
He then added: "Hardcore Democrats or Republicans never vote for the other party, so independent voters are the ones who really decide who is in power!"
According to our understanding of the two parties in the United States, the petrochemical industry has always been the basic foundation of the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party that supports the development of new energy is the Democratic Party. Biden also promulgated relevant bills some time ago to support the development of new energy vehicles.
The industries under Musk are the first to be new energy vehicles Tesla . But at this time, he called for voting for the Republican Party. What is the hell sold in Musk's gourd?
In fact, although Tesla electric vehicles are the world's largest new energy vehicle company, when Biden introduced new policies on various new energy vehicle manufacturing plans, he had invited senior officials from traditional American car companies such as GM and Ford to attend meetings, but he had never invited Musk. The electric vehicle subsidy bill that Biden took out does not include Tesla, which will cause Tesla to build cars to be seriously higher than its competitors. Therefore, as soon as this bill was proposed, it was fiercely opposed by Musk.
In addition, after the Twitter acquisition case fell out, Biden also publicly criticized Musk, saying that he "acquired an institution that spreads lies all over the world."
I don’t know if Biden still remembers that when he was competing for the presidential throne with Trump two years ago, Twitter helped him block negative news about his son Hunter Biden running a natural gas company in Ukraine, and also shut down Trump’s Twitter account, thus gaining the reputation of “Twitterer”.
, while Musk bluntly stated that this was "stupid" and "immoral", and even said that if he could obtain permission on Twitter, Trump's account would be unblocked.
In addition to Tesla and Twitter, Biden and Musk also have huge differences on Ukraine and trade with China.
Regarding the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, although Musk provided the "Starlink" satellite to help maintain Ukraine's Internet communication and provide intelligence, on the other hand, he complained that the cost of using these satellites was not affordable and asked the US Department of Defense to "check out". Because of these remarks, he was once on the assassination list of Ukrainian far-right organizations.
. As for China, I believe everyone is very clear that Tesla’s biggest market is China and the United States, and it also owns a super factory covering an area of 860,000 square meters in Shanghai, China. Biden clamors for "China threat" every day and wants to "decouple" and "restrict" China at every turn. Musk sounds like it's all about money being wasted.
As a businessman, what Musk cares most about is of course his own interests. After the Biden administration operated, Musk was attacked everywhere and everything was restricted. With his unwilling personality, he would naturally come out to stand up for the Republican Party to canvass votes.
The Biden administration is not to be outdone. As early as last month, media broke the news that the Biden administration was discussing whether to conduct national security reviews on some of Musk's companies, such as Twitter, but , the White House later denied the report.
On November 9, Biden was asked a similar question by reporters again. He said, "I think Musk's cooperation or technical relationship with other countries is worth paying attention to," and "there are many ways" to review Musk's words.
"New revenge" and "old hatred", the White House's "attention" to Musk may be very close in a short period of time.