2 years in, Trump surrogate Elon Musk has remade X as a conservative megaphone

Elon Musk jumps onstage at a town hall event hosted by America PAC in support of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Oaks, Pa., on Oct. 18. Ryan Collerd/AFP via Getty Images

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On the eve of Election Day in 2022, Elon Musk took to Twitter to urge Americans to choose Republicans in the midterm elections.

“Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic,” he wrote.

Since the pandemic, Musk’s personal politics have grown more conservative, fueled by his frustrations over

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