Leah Feiger: So Trump brings Musk out, he calls him a very unimaginable man. Musk actually jumps into the air on stage, in what was captured in actually one of many cringiest photographs that I’ve seen on-line perhaps this yr, after which Musk talks to the group for a few minutes. What does he say? Discuss us by way of that.
Vittoria Elliott: It is such a flip from 2020 when there’s all this suspicion round mail-in ballots, round early voting. Now abruptly we’re listening to, “Be sure you’re registered to vote, vote early, do that, do this, get everybody you recognize to vote.” There’s this actually, actually huge get-out-the-vote push, and that’s what Elon was on. When the murderer’s bullet grazed Trump’s ear, he received up and mentioned, “Battle, struggle, struggle.” And Musk very consciously mentioned, “Vote, vote, vote.” And everybody within the crowd instantly noticed that parallel that—
Leah Feiger: I imply, he drew it. Yeah.
Vittoria Elliott: Individuals have been very into that, and one of many issues that Musk mentioned that received a whole lot of response from the those who I used to be instantly round was he mentioned, “The Second—”
Elon Musk [Archival audio]: The Second Modification is there to make sure that now we have the First Modification.
Vittoria Elliott: He was there to whip up the troops, to actually converse to the true believers, to push, push, push for voter turnout, as a result of I believe my sense with the way in which that the MAGA motion is true now’s that they perceive what the Biden crew understood in 2020 the place it isn’t about changing new folks, it is about getting the folks which can be already in your crew mobilized. He mentioned, “This election is crucial election of our lifetime.” Fairly regular. I believe I’ve heard each politician say that for the final 20 years, however then he says, “It’s important to deliver everybody you recognize to vote. If they do not, this might be—”
Elon Musk [Archival audio]: This would be the final election. That is my prediction. Nothing’s extra essential, nothing’s extra essential.
Vittoria Elliott: I even had some folks repeat that to me on the way in which out of the rally, and that’s additionally one thing he has been very public about saying on X, even earlier than coming to this rally. A variety of instances when Musk is talking publicly or when he is interviewed, he’ll tamp again among the rhetoric that he spreads on-line. If we expect again to the Don Lemon interview, the place he was confronted concerning the nice alternative concept, he hedged just a little bit on that.
