What the Democratic landslide means for GOP booster Elon Musk and his businesses
What the Democratic landslide means for GOP booster Elon Musk and his businesses
- November 5, 2026
- Tony Smith, political science, weighs in via the Los Angeles Times
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Musk disclosed last month that the boards of both Tesla and SpaceX were evaluating whether to pursue a merger of the two companies, …. “Certainly, right now the Justice Department wouldn’t do anything about it,” said Charles Anthony Smith, a political science and law professor at UC Irvine. “A future Justice Department with a different attorney general might very well say there are problems with this.”
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