Twitter's new owner Elon Musk threw his weight behind Republican candidates ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, tweeting that the GOP could use control of Congress to act as a balance against President Joe Biden's Democrats
"Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic," Musk said in a tweet on Monday to his more than 110 million followers.
Later, he added, "I'm open to the idea of voting Democrat again in the future" and said he had historically been an independent who had voted for Democrats. Kyle Kondik, from the University of Virginia' Center for Politics, said it was unlikely Musk's words would influence the election's outcome. Asked about Musk's comments, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said: "The president has often spoken about the importance of voting, and I'm just going to leave it there as to not get involved in any kind of election conversation."
Former Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey has voiced a sense of alienation from both Republican and Democratic politics, while Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife donated to two nonprofits that distributed grants to state and local governments to help them conduct elections.
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