Elon Musk says he'll vote Republican for the first time in November

Although Elon Musk is a registered independent who has admitted to “overwhelming” voting for Democrats in the past, the tech billionaire admitted that he planned on voting for the GOP in the upcoming midterm elections.

.@Tesla and @SpaceX CEO @ElonMusk vowed to vote for Republican candidates in the midterm elections, a break from his record of "overwhelmingly" supporting Democratic candidates in the past.

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— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 17, 2022

Musk previously blasted Twitter's "very far-Left bias" as the reason for his political switch, but admitted he has not backed a GOP candidate before.

“I’m not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear. Now this election I will,” Newsweek reported Musk saying while virtually addressing All-In podcast’s tech summit in Miami on Tuesday.

This is not the first time the Tesla founder’s political allegiances have come under question, however.

In a 2013 Huffington Post interview, Musk revealed that he donated to both the Democratic and Republican parties – although he clarified that he voted for former President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, noting that the GOP still falls victim to “corporate evil and religious zealotry," the Washington Examiner reported.

In January 2020 – amid the social unrest surrounding the BLM protests and the presidential election – Musk took to Twitter to say, “the left is losing the middle.”

The left is losing the middle

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 27, 2020

Nearly 30 minutes later, he returned to the platform to poke fun at Karl Marx, posting an image of the intellectual father of communism and writing, “Das Kapital in a nutshell: gib me dat for free.”

Later, in May, the tech giant famously tweeted, “Take the red pill,” a nod to the Matrix which conservatives have taken to mean a switch from left to right politics.