What Next TBD: Elon Wins
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:26.0 | As Donald Trump was praising people on election night at Mar-a-Lago, the listening crowd wanted to make sure he mentioned one person in particular. |
| 0:34.7 | Who did you say? Oh, let me tell you, we have a new star. |
| 0:40.9 | The star is born, Elon. |
| 0:44.4 | That same night, Fox News's Brett Baer said Elon Musk might be the future of the Republican Party. |
| 0:51.2 | We've covered Musk a lot in this election. |
| 0:53.9 | His campaign appearances for Trump, his |
| 0:56.1 | fundraising, and his political action committee, America PAC. But today, we wanted to tell a slightly |
| 1:03.1 | different story about how Elon joined the Trump orbit in the first place. That's why we called |
| 1:09.1 | up Zoe Schiffer to take us back a few years. |
| 1:12.4 | We could definitely see hints of his kind of political transformation. And I think in retrospect, |
| 1:18.9 | it does make a lot of sense for him because he just has so much to gain by aligning himself |
| 1:23.8 | with the Republican Party. |
| 1:34.3 | Zoe wrote a fantastic book about Musk's Twitter takeover called Extremely Hardcore. |
| 1:40.3 | And she knows, better than most people, that the road to election day was not a straight and predictable one. |
| 1:41.7 | And I think while it's easy to assign a lot of strategy to what Elon has |
| 1:47.2 | done in buying Twitter and transforming it into a political influence operation, which I'm sure we'll get |
| 1:52.5 | into, I think in reality, he just does pretty well with the cards that he's dealt and he makes |
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