It is a feverish wait which begins in the United States after the closing this Wednesday morning (French time) of the first polling stations, in a presidential election held in a climate of extraordinary tension. Polling stations are now closed in the first six states in the eastern United States, including the crucial one for the final score, Georgia. If commentators talk about an outcome that is still uncertain, Elon Musk assured them at 4:30 a.m. this morning that the chips were down. “Game, set and match,” tweeted the richest man in the world, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump.
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An Elon Musk, who threw all his strength into the ex-president's campaign and who would also be alongside the ex-business magnate in Florida, his state of residence. On the eve of the American presidential election, the courts of Pennsylvania also rejected a request to suspend the reward of one million dollars offered daily by Elon Musk to an American voter in a key state.
“If he loses, I’m fucked…”
And remember that in mid-October, in a two-hour interview broadcast by conservative presenter Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk assured that Donald Trump must win “to preserve the Constitution and democracy”. “My opinion is that if Trump does not win this election, it is the last election we will have,” he declared to the former star presenter of Fox News, the favorite channel of American conservatives.
Tucker Carlson then joked to Elon Musk that in the event of Donald Trump's defeat, it would “be difficult” for him to “pretend” that he had “never supported” him. “I’m all in baby!” », replied the entrepreneur. “If he loses, I’m fucked…”