“Game, set and match,” billionaire Elon Musk said today as Republican Donald Trump was projected to defeat his Democrat rival Kamala Harris in the US Presidential elections.
The expression that Musk used on X, the social media platform he owns, is commonly used at the conclusion of a tennis match to indicate that a competitor has won.
Game, set and match
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2024
Musk has backed Trump and said earlier today that he planned to spend election night with the former US president. Trump, 79, has pledged to make the United States the “bitcoin and cryptocurrency capital of the world” and to put tech Musk in charge of a wide-ranging audit of governmental waste.
Musk, the world’s richest man, has thrown his millions into backing the Republican presidential candidate since endorsing him in July. He has also reportedly donated at least $118 million to his political action committee, an organization that collects funds for elections.
Trump, 79, has already won several strongholds, including Florida, while Harris has taken a number of eastern states.
The 2024 US Presidential elections are historic because if Harris, the Indian-American who is the first female vice president, wins, she would become the first woman, Black woman and South Asian American to win the presidency.
On the other hand, if the US voters choose Trump, the only president to be impeached twice and the first former president to be criminally convicted, he would become the first president to win non-consecutive terms in more than a century.
