Elon Musk claims early victory for Trump with 6 of 7 swing states still uncalled

Elon Musk has proclaimed victory for Donald Trump as he took an early lead over Kamala Harris.

“Game, set, and match,” the Tesla and SpaceX boss declared on his social network X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday evening.

“America is a nation of builders. Soon, you will be free to build,” he followed up.

Musk has donated more than $130m to Trump and other Republicans during this election, though that is a drop in the ocean compared to his estimated net worth of nearly $265m – which makes him the richest person on Earth.

As a major government contractor, he stands to gain much from a Trump presidency, and Trump himself has floated the idea of appointing Musk to a federal advisory commission.

”At the suggestion of Elon Musk,” the former president said he would form a “government efficiency commission” that would perform “a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.”

“I think we can [cut] at least $2 trillion,” Musk said at Trump’s flagship rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27. He has previously said a Trump victory would create “an opportunity to do kind of a once-in-a-lifetime deregulation and reduction in the size of government”.

Six out of seven swing states remained uncalled on Tuesday evening after Musk made his post, but early voting data suggested that there had been a major swing towards Donald Trump across the nation.