< strong>The social network "X" will broadcast live interviews with Donald Trump and independent US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. on its platform, BTA reported.
This exclusive event will be organized in conjunction with the news channel "NewsNation". These two events will be in the form of a taped interview, during which moderators will relay questions from users of "X" to the guest, said a spokesperson for the social network.
The dates and the identity of the moderators have not yet been revealed, notes AFP.
According to the spokesperson, the chief executive officer of "X" Linda Iaccarino pitched to Nextar, the television group and parent company of NewsNation, the idea of a "new format to bring people closer to the candidates and allow them to ask the questions."
"This will be interesting", the majority shareholder of "X" wrote on the platform. Elon Musk in a message containing a link to an article about the Donald Trump interview. Since taking control of the social network, the entrepreneur has sought to turn the platform into a place where exclusive video content can be broadcast, with a view to increasing traffic.
After being fired from "Fox News", ultraconservative anchor Tucker Carlson moved to "X" last year before starting his own streaming service.
The billionaire met several times with Donald Trump and according to the "Wall Street Journal" has discussed with the former head of state a possible role as a presidential adviser if Trump is elected. On the other hand, Elon Musk is a regular critic of US President Joe Biden, especially regarding his immigration policy.
According to the "Wall Street Journal" "X" and "NewsNation" wanted to organize a debate between the presidential candidates and invited Joe Biden, but he refused. Two debates between the current and former head of state have already been scheduled - the first on CNN on June 27 and the second on ABC on September 10.
Ten percent of registered Republican voters say they are less likely to vote for Donald Trump after his guilty plea to a felony count of forging business documents to conceal payment of money in exchange for silence of the porn actress. This is according to a new poll by Reuters/Ipsos, BTA reported.
According to data from a two-day blitz that ended yesterday, conducted in the hours after the Republican presidential candidate was found guilty by a jury in Manhattan, 56% of her registered voters said the case would not affect their choice, and 35 % indicate they are now even more likely to support Trump.
The billionaire claims the charges against him are politically motivated and has vowed to appeal.
The potential loss of one-tenth of his party's voters matters more than the solid support of more than a third of Republicans, since most of the latter would vote for him anyway regardless of his conviction, Reuters notes .
Among nonpartisan registered voters, 25% say the court decision makes them less likely to vote for Trump in November, and 18% say the opposite; 56% say that the outcome of the case will not in any way affect their choice of who to vote for.
The Manhattan court's decision could shift the political stakes in the race between Trump, who was president from 2017 to 2021, and Democratic President Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 5 election, Reuters noted. In the US, the outcome of the race for the White House is usually decided by small differences in the percentages that form in a few specific swing states, switching their preferences to the Democratic and Republican parties. This means that even a small outpouring of support among voters can make a huge difference.
Biden and Trump remain in a contested race for the White House. Forty-one percent of voters say they would vote for the Democrat if the election were held today, while 39 percent would prefer Trump, according to the survey of 2,556 adults nationwide.
Biden's negligibly small lead is within the survey's statistical margin of error of about 2 percent, and means the trend of about 40 percent support for each of the two candidates measured in the previous Reuters/Ipsos poll of earlier this month, is retained.
In both editions of the survey, almost one in five voters said they had not yet decided who to vote for, would rather support a third candidate, or that they might not go to the polls at all.
The election is more than five months away, which means that a lot can change by November 5. Some GOP campaign strategists believe that with so much time left, Trump's guilty plea is unlikely to make much of a difference to voter sentiment on Election Day.
The verdict in the case against the billionaire is expected to be handed down on July 11, and according to the poll, the electorate is rather divided on whether he should go to prison. According to 53% of registered voters, he should not go behind bars in the money-for-hush case, and 46% are of the opposite opinion.