That doesn’t guarantee he’ll succeed: Musk spent considerable time and resources in a losing effort to elect a Republican to Wisconsin’s supreme court earlier this year. His popularity remains low, and, ultimately, Donald Trump is president, and Musk is not.

The feud between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk is back on. After Musk has railed against Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill in recent days, as GOP leaders struggle to get it across the finish line, the president took the opportunity to lash out at him.

Elon Musk’s feud with President Donald Trump has reignited, with the tech billionaire threatening to launch a new political party and Trump suggesting Musk could be punished for his opposition.