WASHINGTON: With less than a month left for the presidential election in the US, big guns and crowd-pullers are entering the field for both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Joining Trump at Butler, a city in Pennsylvania where he narrowly escaped an assassination bid 12 weeks ago, was Elon Musk, the billionaire who has never kept his deep dislike for Vice President and presidential nominees Harris, President Joe Biden and the Democratic party a secret. On the other side is former president Barack Obama, who has reportedly charted a campaign blitzkrieg for Harris.
In his brief speech at the Butler event on Saturday, Telsa, SpaceX and X boss Musk said this was a must-win situation for the country. In what has come to be his typical fashion of amplifying right-wing talking points, including some that flies on the face of common sense, Musk said Trump must win to “preserve the Constitution” and “preserve democracy in America”. If the Republicans – and ‘Trumpists’ – did not ensure that they and everyone in their circle registered and voted, “this will be the last election.
That is my prediction," Musk said. The irony of pitching Trump as the last hope of democracy and constitution, the same Trump who is facing a very serious charge of inciting the January 6 violence to upend the results of the election that he lost, was not lost on any except the ones virulently backing Trump and/or hating Harris. Meanwhile, former president Obama will begin taking part in campaig.
