Americans' Confidence in Elon Musk Declines, New Poll Shows

He fronted Donald Trump's election campaign and has since led the work of slimming down the US authorities. Something that has proven to be bad for Tesla CEO Elon Musk's popularity.

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Americans' Confidence in Elon Musk Declines, New Poll Shows
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In a new measurement from the news agency AP, conducted together with the opinion institute NORC, 33 percent of the Americans surveyed respond that they have a positive view of Elon Musk.

This is a decline from December when 41 percent were positively inclined.

A similar result shows a measurement from Silver Bullet from the beginning of April, where 53.4 percent of those surveyed had a negative view of Elon Musk while 39.5 percent were positively inclined.

According to a compilation of measurements made by the New York Times, Americans generally still think that authorities need to be streamlined, but they dislike Elon Musk's involvement.

Musk has been working extra as the head of Doge, a newly established unit in the White House, which is to implement massive cuts in the US public sector. A job he is expected to leave within a few weeks.

Tesla's stock has plummeted since the turn of the year and earlier in the week, the electric car company came out with a report that missed expectations. Elon Musk stated in connection with this that he would scale back his work for Donald Trump.

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