'Punk rock to be Republican': Lawmaker claims Elon Musk has made GOP cool
Raw StoryTech billionaire Elon Musk made the Republican Party a "punk rock" group that is cool to join, a state lawmaker from Nevada told a Politico reporter. “The left was very successful the last four years in bringing a negative connotation to MAGA, and I think they lost that battle the day that Elon Musk came out in support, because now all of a sudden it just became punk rock to be Republican,” said Nevada state assemblymember Danielle Gallant. Gallant previously spoke to Siders last January, when the Nevada GOP was bitterly divided over the nominating process due to its decision to effectively hold two separate contests, one in which Trump was running and another in which former South Carolina Gov. Now, he and fellow right-wing billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy are heading up Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" task force, where they have a much more straightforward and traditionally Republican-associated goal: cut government bureaucracy and balance the budget, which they aim to achieve by eliminating lots of federal programs.