Former US President and Republican nominee Donald Trump has decisively beaten his Democrat rival Kamala Harris in an online poll conducted by billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter. The results of the unscientific poll, as of Wednesday, show that almost three quarters of respondents would vote for Trump in November, while just over a quarter support Harris.
Kamala Harris accepted her party’s official nomination earlier in August after President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race; she later chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
On Tuesday, Musk posted on X, “Since a lot of people have asked, here goes a super unscientific poll.
Last week, Elon Musk interviewed Trump on his X Spaces platform in an “unscripted” dialogue with “no limits,” as described by Musk. The interview has so far garnered more than 275 million views. After the interview, Trump told Reuters that he would consider Musk for a role in his administration if he were to run again. Musk responded positively, stating he is “willing to serve.
During the interview, Trump referred to Harris as “third rate,” “incompetent” and a “left lunatic.” The Harris campaign issued a strong response, denouncing Trump’s “extremism and dangerous agenda” and criticizing “self-obsessed rich guys who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.” According to Musk, the stream experienced technical issues due to a large-scale DDoS (dedicated denial of service) attack.
According to polling averages published by The New York Times as of Wednesday, Harris leads Trump by two percent in two swing states: Wisconsin and Michigan. Meanwhile, Trump is ahead by four percent in Georgia. Both candidates are about even in Arizona and Pennsylvania, according to the newspaper’s collation of poll data.