Would Donald Trump have won the 2024 presidential election without Elon Musk's help?

As the once-strong confederation betwixt President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rapidly disintegrates, the 2 titans are not lone trading occurrence implicit the president's "big, beautiful" taxation cuts and spending bill.

Trump and Musk, who spent the archetypal 4 months of the president's 2nd medication arsenic a peculiar White House advisor steering the precocious created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), are besides blasting each different implicit which 1 of them should get the recognition for Trump's decisive 2024 predetermination victory.

The president, speaking with reporters Thursday, argued, "I deliberation I would person won" adjacent without Musk's assistance connected the run way past year.

Musk, the world's richest person and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, went each successful for Trump past summertime and autumn.

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Elon Musk receives a aureate cardinal from President Donald Trump successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, D.C., May 30, 2025, connected his past time arsenic a peculiar advisor to the president. (Reuters/Nathan Howard)

He endorsed the GOP statesmanlike nominee successful July close aft the assassination effort against Trump successful Butler, Pennsylvania.

Musk became the apical donor of the 2024 predetermination cycle, dishing retired astir $300 cardinal successful enactment of Trump's bid done America PAC, a Trump-aligned ace PAC. Much of the wealth was utilized for get-out-the-vote efforts and ads successful the important battleground states arsenic Trump and Kamala Harris faced disconnected for the presidency.

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Musk concentrated overmuch of his efforts connected Pennsylvania. 

He joined Trump for the archetypal clip connected the run way astatine an Oct. 5 rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania, past held 5 municipality halls successful the Keystone State aboriginal successful October.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk jumps connected signifier Oct. 5, 2024, arsenic helium joins Republican statesmanlike nominee Donald Trump during a run rally astatine the tract of an assassination effort connected Trump successful Butler, Pa.   (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

And Musk acceptable up a warfare country of sorts successful Pittsburgh.

Trump, mentioning however Musk campaigned for him successful Pennsylvania, pointed to his White House main of unit Susie Wiles, who was co-chair of Trump's 2024 campaign.

The president noted that "Susie would accidental I would person won Pennsylvania easy anyway."

Musk, seemingly watching Trump's comments successful existent time, rapidly fired backmost connected X, which Musk renamed aft buying Twitter.

"Without me, Trump would person mislaid the election, Dems would power the House and the Republicans would beryllium 51-49 successful the Senate," Musk wrote. "Such ingratitude."

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Tom Eddy, the GOP president successful Erie County, a longtime important plaything region successful northwestern Pennsylvania, told Fox News that Musk "helped Trump significantly. I truly deliberation so. He had wealth and helium had a name."

But Eddy added that "my gut feeling would beryllium that Trump is fundamentally saying, ‘Look. I won the election. These radical helped me, but I won.’ That's what he's trying to bring across."

Longtime Republican strategist Dave Carney, a seasoned of galore GOP statesmanlike campaigns implicit the past fewer decades, said the president and Musk are some right.

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Carney, who steered Preserve America, different top-spending Trump-aligned ace PAC, told Fox News that Trump "might person won without the help, but you can't underestimate however important that assistance was."

Pointing to Preserve America, Musk's America PAC and MAGA Inc, which was the main Trump-aligned ace PAC, Carney said they each deserved "a tremendous magnitude of credit" and "just made it easier" for Trump to expanse each 7 battleground states and triumph the White House.

Carney besides highlighted the Musk-aligned ace PAC's "unprecedented tract effort, message and different communications … to crook retired these low-propensity Trump voters."