Elon Musk tells Tucker Carlson Trump won the election by ‘being a normal person’

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Elon Musk has claimed that Donald Trump won the presidential election because he went on Joe Rogan’s podcast and was “a normal person.” The billionaire Trump ally told right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson that if Harris had also gone on Rogan’s show, it “would have been game over.” “Nothing would do more damage to Kamala’s campaign than going on Joe Rogan because she’d run out of nonsequiturs after about 45 minutes,” Musk said on a live broadcast from Mar-a-Lago on November 6. open image in gallery Elon Musk speaks to Tucker Carlson in a live broadcast from Mar-a-Lago on November 6 Musk concluded that the Rogan interview “really a difference.” Rogan publicly endorsed Trump on the eve of the election, after Musk had also appeared on the podcast. “They just listen to someone talk for a few hours and that’s how they decide whether you’re, you know, a good person whether they like you.” The SpaceX CEO has been tapped for a role within Trump’s second administration after financially and publicly backing him in the election campaign. Trump, a multibillionaire and among the ranks of America’s richest people, was the first Republican to win the popular vote alongside the Electoral College since George W. Bush in 2004. open image in gallery Elon Musk jumps on stage as he joins Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 5 October, 2024 According to Associated Press exit polling, Trump decisively won the male vote, with 52 percent support among 18- to 44-year-old men, and 56 percent backing among those 45+ men.