By Scott Patterson
Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) made the case that Democrats should take the Trump-Musk rift as an opportunity to bring the Tesla CEO-and his billions of dollars-to their side.
"If Biden had a big supporter criticize him, Trump would have hugged him the next day," Khanna posted on X. "When we refused to meet with @RobertKennedyJr, Trump embraced him & won. We can be the party of sanctimonious lectures, or the party of FDR that knows how to win & build a progressive majority."
Musk though might not be ready to hop aboard the Democratic bandwagon. He wrote in a post on X that it's "time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle."
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