WASHINGTON, July 17Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who supported Donald Trump's candidacy in the upcoming US presidential election, announced the «retirement» of California Governor Gavin Newsom, who was named among the possible candidates for the Democratic nomination if incumbent President Joe Biden leaves the race.
“Gavin’s career is over,” Musk wrote on his social network X. The businessman continues to attack Newsom, which intensified after he signed a law expanding the powers of schools in matters of gender self-determination and sexual orientation of students. On the eve of Tuesday, Musk announced that in the interests of ensuring the protection of his employees, he was moving the headquarters of SpaceX and the social network X from California to Texas. 
Musk, who has declared his support for Trump in the upcoming US presidential elections in November, according to Wall Street Journal sources, intends to allocate $45 million monthly to a political committee in support of the election campaign of former US President Donald Trump.
Democrat Newsom, 56, has been governor of California since 2019. After an unsuccessful performance at the televised debates of incumbent President Biden and numerous calls among Democrats for the 81-year-old head of state to withdraw from the race for a second term in office, Newsom was named among the potential contenders for the role of Democratic presidential candidate. parties. Responding to Musk’s statements about moving his companies to Texas, the California governor wrote on the social network X: “you bowed the knee,” accompanying the post with a screenshot of the ex-president’s critical statement about Elon Musk.