Coral Davenport
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And so then we get to this moment where Trump and Vote are heading back to the White House.
Vote has done all of his homework.
He is so prepared.
He has plans and blueprints and contingencies, and he has mapped it all out.
He has a 360-degree vision for how it's all going to go, and he's ready to go into the White House and realize it.
But then he runs into the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.
Well, Musk had contributed more than any other donor toward the reelection of President Trump.
He's the richest man in the world.
And, of course, he came in with this idea of what would become Doge, this move fast and break things, tear up the federal government.
very much had his vision.
They both envisioned, you know, clearing out all the inefficiencies and streamlining the government.
But beyond that, the practice of how, in fact, to do it was profoundly different.
But, you know, the way one person put it to me is like, vote did all his homework.
Musk did not do it at all.
You know, vote had to be brought in to help brief Musk on how the government works.
And Musk came in and he had all this money and he had access to the president and everything.
He was kind of given free reign to do what he wanted.