A hot mic early Wednesday morning on Fox News caught someone‘s displeased reaction to a host’s prediction that Elon Musk ’s influence on the next Trump administration and the Republican Party would only grow over the next few years. “Oh, lord!” was the response after host Bret Baier gave his post-election view of the GOP and its future trajectory. “It‘s a multi-racial party.
It‘s working class. And maybe it‘s the future. It‘s Elon Musk, it‘s Joe Rogan and podcasts.
There‘s an opportunity here for both parties to realign and change.” Musk‘s political action committee, America PAC, is expected to work on Republicans’ behalf through at least the 2026 midterms, the billionaire Trump donor said on a recent X livestream. Comedian Jay Leno, though he’s not a Donald Trump fan, thinks the 2024 election was “a great day for democracy.
” The former Tonight Show host, who usually keeps quiet on politics, discussed the election in a Wednesday appearance on The Talk . “The nice thing about this election is, it was fair, it was honest,” he said. “OK, I was not a fan, but that’s OK, it’s the President of the United States—let’s all get together, thank you very much.
” Leno added that, in his view, the election “was done professionally—there was no cheating. Everybody says it was honest. I mean, it’s a great day for democracy.
” The last time Leno weighed in with his political views, in January, he told Piers Morgan that he was “not a.
