The world’s wealthiest man, currently busy carelessly dismembering the federal government, took time out of his busy schedule early Wednesday morning to review the results of a special election for a state senate seat in Pennsylvania.
“Damn,” Elon Musk posted at one minute after midnight on X, his digital bazaar of political disinformation, when it became clear that the Democratic mayor of a tiny Pennsylvania borough was on the verge of defeating a Republican commissioner from the much larger surrounding county for a seat held by Republicans for four decades.
James Andrew Malone, a Democrat and mayor of East Petersburg, took time later on Wednesday morning to reply to Musk while celebrating his apparent upset.
“I’ll take this as a compliment, because Elon Musk knows I’m about to get to work for everyday people of Pennsylvania, not him and his billionaire friends,” Malone wrote on X.
Malone had just 11 weeks to campaign, after the special election was announced on Jan. 7. He told me on Wednesday that he heard from Trump supporters who had voted Republican for five decades but were “absolutely disgusted with the chaos” going on in Washington, as Musk decimates the government.