Economy, immigration, Elon Musk at center of German election; conservative candidate favored to win
Germany's election has also caught the attention of Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk. Musk has championed the AfD as the best political party to fix Germany's economic woes. Musk's comments drew the ire of German politicians, and Chancellor Scholz ...
Exclusive: Alice Weidel on Her Far-Right AfD Party’s Rise, Elon Musk’s Support, and the German Election
The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, used his closing statement of the debate to promise his voters that he would never allow the AfD into his government. Under him, he said, the firewall would hold.
The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.
Sunday's vote is a pivotal moment for the Alternative for Germany party. It's polling high enough for second place as part of a far-right surge sweeping Europe.
Elon Musk will face consequences for meddling in Germany's election campaign, Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become the ...
President Donald Trump has set Elon Musk loose on the executive branch, to stunning early effect. Musk controls the ...
Elon Musk’s move-fast-and-break-things ethos has served him well so far in his efforts to demolish the federal bureaucracy.
Elon Musk is set to deliver his debut speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday afternoon.
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