An analyst has suggested Musk's efforts to drum up support for Trump via petition could be capitalized on by Democrats.

A few days after Elon Musk first offered to buy what was then called Twitter and is now X, he wrote that the website “must be politically neutral” in order to deserve the public’s trust — “which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.

Early voting opened in North Carolina this week, and voters have already cast a record number of ballots, even in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Voting is also set to open in Detroit, a crucial swing state that both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump campaigned in on Friday.