Elon Musk claimed that his role in the Trump government comes to an early end after Democrats have confiscated the unpopularity of the billionaire to win a decisive breed of the state’s highest court.
In a contribution to X he recorded a report by Politico as “fake news” musk To leave as head of the so -called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) within weeks.
Musk was originally expected to cite by the summer of 2026. Last week the billionaire proposed that he could be finished with the government by the end of May Trump card On Monday, forecast that “at some point Elon wants to return to his company”.
The White House confirmed that Musk “would deviate from the public service as a special government agent if his incredible work … has been completed”. The shares of Musks Tesla, which had previously reported an enormous decline in deliveries, rose sharply in the news of his potential departure and closed 5.3 percent.
In the past few weeks the richest man in the world has been in more than $ 25 million in A Justice breed in WisconsinWith argumented that the “future of civilization” was dependent on choosing a conservative for the state’s highest court.
But on Tuesday, Musk’s preferred candidate Brad Schimel lost 10 percentage points in a race that had turned into a survey on his popularity.
Prominent Trump supporters had hard words for the billionaire.
The voters in the USA were “extremely about musk” and the cuts of Doge, said Blake Neff, a co-moderator of the conservative influencers Charlie Kirks Podcast. “I can see that, I can see it in places that are not even political that people are all built through Elon Musk.”
“Last night was a wake -up call,” Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon told Financial Times. “Elon was in every advertisement,” added the long -time musk critic. “I think Elon was more in the ads than Trump.”
Since he decided to justify Trump’s campaign with more than a quarter of a billion dollars last year, Musk has become the most feared political donor in the United States and threatens to use his financial firepower in races of all sizes to consolidate the republican dominance nationwide.
Musk’s participation to Wisconsin was not limited to cabling agents. He revived a program that was used in the Swing states in the presidential election of last year, and offered 100 US dollars to sign a petition, with some of the signatories being checked.
The state democrats, who supported the liberal judge Susan Crawford for the court seat, confiscated the spectacle to convince their basis that a billionaire who “probably never entered Wiscons” had to buy their voices in the most expensive judiciary in American history.
Their messaging was improved by growing resentment over the Task Force of Musk, the tens of thousands of government roles, tried to close the agencies and to pursue auxiliary recordings by $ 1 $ 1 savings.
The conservatives in Wisconsin have now been less alarmed by Musk’s warnings that a liberal majority at the court ultimately lead to a realignment of the state’s election mapping in favor of the democrats and that the intermediate elections in 2026 would torpedo the Trump agenda.
“I have the feeling that this is one of the things that may not influence the whole fate of humanity, but I think it will be,” said a cheese hat, like a musk in Green Bay on Sunday to a lot in Green Bay.
On Tuesday, the surroundings, which voted for the President in November, were one of 10 Trump-supporting counties that support Crawford in record participation.
Musk seemed to expect the negative result and increased last month that it was “difficult” to defeat a liberal candidate in an election that tended to produce more enthusiasm from Democrats.
“I expected I would lose, but it is added value to lose a piece for a position gain,” Musk wrote on X.
“The Republicans are happy, they are not crazy, they are not with energy to stand out – that’s why they saw how Elon spoke in such apocalyptic terms,” said a Republican strategist who advised congress candidates.
However, the strategist added that the billionaire is “a polarizing figure under the base of the Democrats”. Musk “Dump’s petrol on the energy of the Democrats”.
There are some signs that Schimel’s loss was not only shown by die -hard Democrats. Wisconsinites also voted to initiate the prerequisite for the voters to point ID – a state law – in the constitution of the state. The measure is rejected by liberals who claim that it will enable discrimination against older voters and ethnic minorities.
Many Democrats, who have also managed to improve their figures in two special elections in the Congress in Solid Districts in Florida on Tuesday, will see Wisconsin’s profit as a further confirmation that Musk is far less popular than Trump and a Republican Achilles-Jersen.
The democratic strategy Julie Roginsky said: “Not only Democrats, but independent and certainly a considerable number of Republicans look at Elon Musk and say:” Who is this type? “Why is he in our lives?
The next important election tests will take place in New Jersey and Virginia who choose new governors in November. When Musk appears in these states, Roginsky said: “I think he will do a massive favor.”
For Trump’s passionate supporters, the result in Wisconsin can be less about Musk’s toxicity for certain voters than the dependence of the Republicans on the president’s brand.
Trump himself approved Schimel 11 days before the vote and, despite the requests to do this, not fought personally in the state.
“The political problem on the Republican side of the Ganges is how we can make our basis in off-cycle elections,” wrote Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday on X. “We saw how the establishment (finally) accepts Donald Trump’s leadership of the Republican Party. Now it is time to actually learn from his political success.”
The conservative influencer Kirk, whose group-turn-point campaign for Schimel fought in Wisconsin, said: “The Democrats will now enjoy this kind of (high propensity) coalition that they have built up. We are still dependent on Trump’s magic.”
Additional reporting from Stefania Palma
