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Musk has been campaigning hard for Trump successful Pennsylvania, wherever polls suggest Trump is successful a necktie with his Democratic rival
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, planned to walk predetermination nighttime with Donald Trump successful Florida astatine his Mar-a-Lago resort, helium said connected X/Twitter.
Mr Musk, the proprietor of Tesla and X, has aggressively campaigned for the Republican campaigner successful plaything states crossed the country.
Trump's run is besides hosting a ticker enactment astatine the Palm Beach Convention Center for thousands of supporters.
The tech billionaire has emerged arsenic 1 of the astir important backers of Trump and donated much than $119m (£91.6m) this predetermination rhythm to America PAC - a governmental enactment committee helium created to enactment the erstwhile president.
Mr Musk announced his enactment for the erstwhile president earlier this year, contempt saying successful 2022 that "it's clip for Trump to bent up his chapeau and sail into the sunset".
He posted a photograph of himself connected Tuesday saying helium voted successful Cameron County, Texas - wherever immoderate of his companies are headquartered - earlier heading to Florida.
Later successful the evening, helium wrote connected X, "Game, acceptable and match".
The run was feeling assured precocious connected Tuesday arsenic supporters gathered astatine Trump's office successful the Palm Beach normal centre to hold for results. At 1 point, the assemblage broke into a creation solemnisation to YMCA.
Huge cheers erupted successful the assemblage arsenic the authorities of Florida was projected arsenic a triumph for Trump, albeit a triumph that was ne'er successful doubt.
Former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard arrived astatine the party, aft antecedently attending Trump's much exclusive ticker enactment astatine Mar-a-Lago.
"There's a batch of truly excited radical there" who were "cautiously optimistic", she told the BBC.
Steve Witkoff, a adjacent person of Trump, was besides with him astatine Mar-a-Lago. There was "a beardown feeling of excitement and purpose", helium said.
The assemblage included Blake Marnell, who often wore a brick-patterned suit to Trump events successful enactment of Trump's as-yet unfounded committedness to physique a partition on the confederate border. He said helium was feeling precise optimistic astir his candidate's chances.
Sergio Ramirez, a businessman primitively from El Salvador, claimed Trump could lone suffer if the Democrats "cheated... I don’t spot however she tin triumph — Kamala wasn’t a fashionable candidate."
Michael, dressed successful a “Blacks for Trump 2024” T-shirt. “We outnumbered them successful aboriginal voting and we outnumber them now”, helium claims.
At a formalwear lawsuit adjacent doorway successful the Hilton hotel, Iowa Republican delegate Deborah Yanna said it felt similar "Christmas morning". "When President Trump takes the White House back, he’s going to marque America sparkle again," she said.
Elsewhere, Steve Bannon, erstwhile main strategist of the Trump White House, plans to clasp an predetermination ticker enactment contiguous astatine the Willard Hotel - the five-star Washington DC edifice that served arsenic the "command centre" for Trump loyalists seeking to overturn the 2020 predetermination results.
Bannon was released from national situation 1 week ago, aft serving 4 months down bars for contempt of the US Congress.
Kamala Harris will walk predetermination nighttime astatine Howard University, her alma mater and a historically achromatic assemblage successful Washington DC.
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