That much was evident the first day of the convention when Musk’s loudest critic in the Republican Party — Steve Bannon — played nice with the billionaire and laughed away the animus for Musk he’d displayed on his War Room podcast for weeks.
Musk’s DOGE personnel cuts remain wildly popular with the MAGA right, even barring his unusual antics and occasional tendency to overshadow his boss, Donald Trump.
Frank LaRose, Ohio’s secretary of state, is set to hold a campaign event alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, Musk’s onetime DOGE co-chief, this coming week.
Elon Musk’s sudden invasion of Donald Trump’s inner circle and the launch of his DOGE effort to shutter whole government agencies came with more than a little controversy.
At that moment, CPAC was a literal safe space for Musk as the singer Grimes, with whom he has a son, publicly pleaded with her former boyfriend to respond to an apparent urgent medical issue his child faced.