Tech billionaire and former Trump administration official Elon Musk’s favorability has fallen to lower than 25 % in a ballot launched Thursday.
Musk solely garnered 23 % favorability within the CNN ballot, together with his unfavorability at 60 %. Within the ballot, 3 % of respondents stated that they had “never heard of” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, whereas 14 % have been conscious of him however had “no opinion.”
Musk, who oversaw the creation of President Trump’s Division of Authorities Effectivity and beforehand seemed to be shut with the president and different Republicans, has since taken purpose at Trump and GOP members of Congress over a number of points.
He has continued to inflame public intrigue surrounding convicted intercourse offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein amid rising stress on the Trump administration to launch additional info from the legal case in opposition to Epstein.
The tech billionaire first planted the seeds of the latest Epstein controversy amid a feud with Trump final month, when he alleged Trump was named within the Epstein information and stated, “That is the real reason they have not been made public,” which promoted the White Home to push again.
Within the CNN ballot, the Republican Social gathering garnered 33 % favorability and 51 % unfavorability, whereas 3 % of respondents stated that they had “never heard of” the occasion, and 13 % stated they have been conscious of it however had “no opinion.”
The CNN ballot came about July 10-13, that includes 1,057 respondents and a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 share factors.