They're great.

Everybody up here is great.

Everybody up here is very special.

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.

Who did you say?

Oh, let me tell you, we have a new star.

The star is born, Elon.

That same night, Fox News's Brett Baer said Elon Musk might be the future of the Republican Party.

We've covered Musk a lot in this election, his campaign

appearances for Trump, his fundraising, and his political action committee, America PAC. But today,

we wanted to tell a slightly different story about how Elon joined the Trump orbit in the first

place. That's why we called up Zoe Schiffer to take us back a few years.

We could definitely see hints of his kind of political transformation.

And I think in retrospect, it does make a lot of sense for him because he just has so much

to gain by aligning himself with the Republican Party.

Zoe wrote a fantastic book about Musk's Twitter takeover called Extremely Hardcore.

And she knows better than most people that the road to election day was not a straight

and predictable one. And I think while it's easy to assign a lot of

strategy to what Elon has done in buying Twitter and transforming it into a political influence

operation, which I'm sure we'll get into, I think in reality, he just does pretty well with the

cards that he's dealt and he makes impulsive decisions and then is like,

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