Elon Musk encourages independents to vote for a Republican Congress ahead of midterms

New Twitter proprietor Elon Musk weighed successful connected Tuesday's upcoming midterm elections and tweeted connected Monday that "independent-minded" radical should ballot for a Republican Congress.

"Shared powerfulness curbs the worst excesses of some parties, truthful I urge voting for a Republican Congress, fixed that the Presidency is Democratic," Musk wrote successful a tweet Monday.

In a follow-up tweet, the billionaire added, "Hardcore Democrats oregon Republicans ne'er ballot for the different side, truthful autarkic voters are the ones who really determine who's successful charge!"

Musk tweeted successful April that the level must beryllium politically neutral successful bid to support the public's trust. But successful caller days Musk has deed backmost astatine galore of his critics connected Twitter, including progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and replied favorably to galore salient blimpish media figures.

A Republican-controlled Congress with a Democratic president would marque it little apt for large changes impacting tech platforms to go law.

A sizable radical of Republicans person worked with Democrats to rein successful the powerfulness of the largest tech firms done caller contention laws, but others are inactive skeptical and similar to absorption connected issues of contented moderation and alleged censorship of blimpish viewpoints. Democrats' attack to contented moderation issues is mostly astatine likelihood with that of Republicans, which would marque it hard to walk laws connected that contented successful a closely-divided Congress.

Musk attended House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's fundraising retreat successful August, and helium donated implicit $100,000 to Republican-led groups during the 2018 midterm elections, according to Federal Election Commission records.

The Tesla CEO has besides been astatine likelihood with the Biden White House arsenic the president pushes for infrastructure betterment and tries to promote conveyance companies to spell green. In an email speech with CNBC successful February, Musk accused President Joe Biden of ignoring his electrical conveyance institution successful favour of paying much attraction to bequest automakers.

Musk's tweets person travel nether aggravated scrutiny since helium acquired Twitter past period for $44 billion. His enactment has been marked by monolithic layoffs, spending pauses from immoderate advertisers and disorder astir the platform's argumentation changes.

--CNBC's Kevin Breuninger and Brian Schwartz contributed to this report.