Even Trump Voters Are Trashing Elon Musk

A focus group of swing voters, including those who swung to Trump, had nothing good to say about Elon Musk.

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Elon Musk Is Not A Popular Man

Focus groups are not a definitive science, but what separates them from polling is that they allow voters to express how they feel about political figures in their own words. Since Elon Musk is now a political figure, he is a subject of focus groups.

The opinions that voters have of Musk are not good.

Puck reported:

Polls, for instance, don’t tell you that Musk is a “weird nerd,” which is how Adam, a Trump-voting hockey fan from Macomb County, described the billionaire last week. Or that he’s a “complete tool,” as Michael from Milwaukee put it, or “scary” (Tyesha in Toledo), or “selfish” (DeAndre, also from Milwaukee) and just looking to enrich himself. Perhaps Eric, a real estate appraiser from Pittsburgh, put it most poignantly: “Extremely radical. Scary. I just shudder that Trump has given him carte blanche.”

These quotes are just a sample of what swing voters …