The republican enthusiasm for Musk cools after his quarrel with Trump, a new survey finds
Washington – The technological billionaire Elon Musk lost part of his brilliance with the Republicans since his disorderly audience is falling with President Donald Trump last week, according to a new investigation.
Less republicans consider the effectiveness of the government of Trump Bulldog “very favorably” compared to April, according to the poll of the Associated Press-Noc Center for Public Affairs Research.
Although most Republicans continue to have a positive vision of Musk, their decrease in fervor suggests its vocal opposition at the expense of expenditure and the tax reduction of Trump – and political and personal musk taunts – may have cost him some enthusiasm within the party.
“Some things have happened recently that have changed what I feel a little for him,” said the Republican of Alabama Katye Long, whose feelings for Musk have cooled for “somewhat favorable”.
“I liked what he was doing when he helped. But now I have the impression that he is doing a little trouble,” said the 34 -year -old car component factory and mother of three children from Woodstock, in Alabama. “I don’t have the impression that it counts so much. It is not really part of the government. It’s just a rich guy who pushes his opinions. ”
Musk’s global popularity has not changed, the survey found, and most of the change among the Democrats and the Republicans was between “very” and “somewhat” strong opinions. Americans are less likely to see it favorably than its electric vehicle company, Tesla. That said, about half of Americans have a negative opinion on Tesla, highlighting another challenge for Musk when the company has dropped and was the target of demonstrations in the United States and Europe. About a third have a favorable vision of Tesla, while around 2 out of 10 do not know enough to say.
Even a subtle change in the intensity of the feelings of the Republicans about Musk could be significant because the electric car and aerospace magnate weighs a second political act after spending about 200 million dollars in the service of Trump’s electoral effort in 2024.
After having denounced the massive bill for the fiscal and budgetary policy of the GOP as “a disgusting abomination”, wrote Musk on X, his social media platform, “in November of next year, we dismissed all the politicians who betrayed the American people”.
The survey suggests that the disorderly quarrel with Trump may have rubbed certain Republicans in the wrong direction, because the share of republicans considering musk as “very favorable” has increased from 38% in April to 26% now. At the same time, antipathy towards musk among democrats has declined a little. About two -thirds, 65%, Democrats have a very negative vision of musk, slightly down compared to about three -quarters, 74%, in April.
Musk’s back and forth with Trump also has commercial implications. Tesla already had trouble with a reaction against the Musk association with Trump. Sales across Europe dived in half in May, even if the growth of the electric cars has accelerated. Then, the actions of the company plunged into value when Musk began to struggle publicly with the president.
Victoria Brown, from Kansas City, Kansas, assessed Tesla “somewhat unfavorable” because she opposes the way Trump leads his administration and connects the owner of the company to the president’s agenda.
“I do not favor Trump. So, almost the fact that they have worked together means that I don’t care for Tesla,” said Brown, 63, independent political and insurance agent.
Although the intensity of people’s feelings about Musk could have changed, their overall opinions did not do so. About a third of us, adults have a favorable opinion on musk, against around 6 out of 10 which have an unfavorable vision, while about 1 out of 10 did not know enough to say. It is unchanged from the April survey.
The new survey was carried out from June 5 to 9, after Musk left his role as government and began to attack Trump’s renowned legislative priority.
Trump’s public confrontation started four days after Trump honored Musk actually during an oval office event that unloaded it as head of the government’s Ministry of Efficiency.
After first having demolished the budget bill, Musk two days later complained that he had never seen the language, and he targeted his fire on Trump, suggesting that the president does not appreciate the role that Musk assumed enough as the main benefactor of the Trump’s re -election effort.
“Without me, Trump would have lost the elections, the Dems would control the room and the Republicans are 51 to 49 years old in the Senate,” wrote Musk. “Such ingratitude.”
Musk continued by claiming without proof that the federal government hid information on the Trump association with the infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Musk removed the post, and early Wednesday, he fell from his attacks on Trump, writing on X that he regretted some of his messages and that they “went too far”.
Tesla endured a difficult first quarter in 2025, with its down sales while the first electric car manufacturer in the world was faced with demonstrations in the exhibition halls. The new survey also shows that Tesla is considered much more negatively than some of its peers – notably Ford, Toyota and General Motors.
Only about a third of us, adults, have a vision “very” or “somewhat” favorable from Tesla. About half of American adults have an unfavorable opinion on Tesla, including 30% of Republicans. Democrats, at 66%, are more than twice as likely than Republicans to have a negative vision of Tesla. But even among the Republicans, Tesla is considered less favorably than other brands.
Marisa Mills is not a musk fan. The 41 -year -old teacher from Oakland, California, opposes his association with Trump and that the Democrat considers their wrong notion that the government is still well served by operating as a business.
And yet, she was once proud to have tesla to build cars in her own county. She embittered the company in 2020, when Musk continued the county of Alameda for his restrictions on the workplace during the coronavirus pandemic, before moving the company to Texas in 2021.
“My government is supposed to serve the people, not their business. We were all happy to see them go,” said Mills. “I regret that we now have feelings of regret for the product of the Tesla car. We were once so proud. ”
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The AP-Noc survey with 1,158 adults was led from June 5 to 9, using a sample from the amerisheak panel based on the probability of NORC, which is designed to be representative of the American population. The sampling margin for adults overall is more or less 4 percentage points.
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