{"id":741,"date":"2025-06-13T19:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T19:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=741"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:05:37","slug":"fewer-republicans-have-very-favorable-views-of-musk-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/fewer-republicans-have-very-favorable-views-of-musk-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Republicans have 'very favorable' views of Musk: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican attitudes toward tech billionaire Elon Musk appear to have cooled after his bitter public row<\/a> with President Trump last week, as a new poll found fewer respondents saying they have “very favorable” views of the former head of the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency compared to April.<\/p>\n

About a fourth of Republicans surveyed in the latest Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll<\/a> said they have “very favorable” views of Musk \u2014 down from 38 percent of those surveyed in April.<\/p>\n

But many of them appear to have shifted to a “somewhat favorable” opinion of Musk, suggesting GOP supporters haven’t completely rebuffed the world’s wealthiest man.<\/p>\n

The AP poll found that while 29 percent of Republicans in April voiced mild support for Musk, the number climbed to 38 percent in June.<\/p>\n

Combined, the “somewhat” and “very” favorable opinions remained high and nearly unchanged \u2014 64 percent this month versus 67 percent in April.<\/p>\n

Ten percent of Republicans said they had “very unfavorable” views of Musk in both polls; and “somewhat unfavorable” ratings shifted by just 3 percentage points, from 15 percent in April to 18 percent in June.<\/p>\n

Musk was a top ally and campaign donor to Trump until a messy falling out rocked the White House, starting with Musk’s criticism of the tax and spending megabill that carries much of Trump’s domestic policy agenda.<\/p>\n

Trump and Musk’s feud erupted with blistering public digs<\/a> last Thursday. Both have appeared to tone down the tension, with Musk issuing a mea culpa<\/a> days after their relationship imploded.<\/p>\n

“I regret some of my posts about President [Trump] last week. They went too far,\u201d Musk wrote Wednesday on his social platform X.<\/p>\n

Similar to Republicans, overall and Democratic views of Musk also showed little change, with majorities continuing to view him unfavorably.<\/p>\n

About a third of all adults surveyed this month said they have “very” or “somewhat” favorable opinions of Musk, while 32 percent held favorable opinions in April.<\/p>\n

Ten percent of Democrats surveyed said they had “very” or “somewhat” favorable views of Musk in June, compared to 9 percent in April.<\/p>\n

The AP poll was conducted June 5-9<\/a> and included results from 1,158 adults across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The margin of error is 4 percentage points.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican attitudes toward tech billionaire Elon Musk appear to have cooled after his bitter public row with President Trump last week, as a new poll found fewer respondents saying they<\/p>\n

Continue reading <\/use> <\/svg>Fewer Republicans have 'very favorable' views of Musk: Survey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}