Tech billionaire Elon Musk noticed his favorability drop sharply amongst Republicans within the aftermath of his public feud with President Trump, in keeping with the newest YouGov/Economist ballot.
Within the survey — carried out within the days after the drama unfolded between two of the world’s strongest males — Musk’s internet favorability amongst Republicans fell to 39 p.c, with 67 p.c favorable and 28 p.c unfavorable.
That represents a dramatic drop from the web 59 p.c favorability ranking Musk noticed the earlier week, when 76 p.c of Republicans held a good view and 18 p.c held an unfavorable view of Musk.
Musk’s favorability declined throughout just about all political teams.
Total, his internet favorability dropped this week to detrimental 23 p.c — 35 p.c favorable, 58 p.c unfavorable — down from a internet favorability of detrimental 9 p.c the earlier week — 42 p.c favorable, 51 p.c unfavorable.
Amongst Democrats, Musk’s internet favorability dropped to internet detrimental 77 p.c — 10 p.c favorable, 87 p.c unfavorable — down from final week’s already dismal internet detrimental 65 p.c — 15 p.c favorable, 80 p.c unfavorable.
Even independents soured this week on Musk, whose favorability amongst that group dropped to internet detrimental 32 p.c — 27 p.c favorable, 59 p.c unfavorable — down from the earlier week’s internet detrimental 22 p.c — 34 p.c favorable, 56 p.c unfavorable.
The ballot additionally requested respondents whose aspect they might choose within the feud between Trump and Musk. The overwhelming majority of Republicans picked Trump, 74 p.c, whereas solely 6 p.c selected Musk. One other 13 p.c stated neither and seven p.c stated they’re unsure.
Nearly all of Democrats and independents say they might aspect with neither Trump nor Musk.
The ballot, carried out June 6-9, included 1,533 U.S. adults and a margin of error of three.5 proportion factors.
