The Campaign Moment: The Elon Musk effect
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Over the past few months, Elon Musk has heavily invested in the Trump campaign. Musk is hosting rallies in swing states, giving out million-dollar checks to registered voters in those states and organizing canvassers. Billionaires donating to presidential campaigns is nothing new, but Musk is putting much more than money into the race.
Elahe Izadi speaks with technology reporter Trisha Thadani and national political reporter Michael Scherer about Musk’s political influence.
Today’s show was produced by Eliza Dennis and Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Reena Flores and mixed by Sam Bair.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, we're less than a week away from Halloween. |
| 0:05.0 | I have some Halloween parties to go to and I was looking for some political costume ideas. |
| 0:12.0 | Do you guys have any ideas for politics inspired |
| 0:15.0 | Halloween costumes? Oh God I feel like the election coming up has just totally |
| 0:19.8 | overshadowed Halloween. It's spooky itself. |
| 0:24.0 | It'd be funny if you could come up with a way of attending as the AI version of one of the candidates. |
| 0:29.0 | Since so much of what we see now is the AI version of them. |
| 0:32.0 | Maybe like an extra finger or something. of what we see now is the AI version of them. |
| 0:33.0 | Maybe like an extra finger or something. |
| 0:35.1 | Right. |
| 0:36.3 | The superhero version of Donald Trump. |
| 0:38.8 | Welcome to the campaign moment on this Friday, October 25th. I'm Elahai I'm Elahay I'm |
| 0:48.0 | Elahay I'm Elahy Zadi, co-host of Post Reports. Aaron Blake, my usual co-host and author of the campaign |
| 0:54.4 | moment newsletter is unfortunately out sick. But fortunately this week I'm |
| 0:59.8 | joined by Tricia Thadani, a technology reporter at the post. Hey Tricia, |
| 1:04.0 | Thanks so much for having me. And we also are lucky to have here, Michael Schur, |
| 1:09.0 | one of our amazing national political reporters at the post. Hey Michael. |
| 1:13.2 | Great to be back. |
| 1:18.2 | So we're talking right now on Friday morning |
| 1:21.6 | and I wanted to talk to both of you because you have both |
| 1:24.6 | been reporting a lot on this one person who is very powerful and has also been |
| 1:30.6 | playing a very big role in this election. |
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