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Elon Musk will head to Mar-a-Lago, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Florida country club, to watch the election results with the Republican candidate on Tuesday evening, according to the New York Times. (Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, will be in Washingon, D.C., watching the election results at Howard University, her alma mater.)
Musk has marshaled his considerable resources toward boosting Trump in the weeks and months leading up to the election, donating tens of millions of dollars to Trump’s campaign, appearing with him at rallies, and unleashing a flood of often false or misleading political posts on X, the social media platform Musk purchased in 2022 for $44 billion.
The latest of those came on Monday, when Musk shared posts claiming that Google’s search engine produced “where to vote” results for Harris but not for Trump. Google responded to Musk through its own X account, explaining that the discrepancy was because “Harris” is also the name of a county in Texas and that’s what the search results were producing. It had similar results for “Vance”—the last name of Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance—because Vance is also a county.
Musk, in a rare public acknowledgment of his mistake, reshared Google’s explanation with, “Thanks for the clarification.”
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