Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump on May 30, 2025 inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington.
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Elon Musk’s official role in the Trump administration recently came to an end. Many Republicans won’t be sad to see less of him, according to the results of Quinnipiac University’s latest public opinion survey.
While a majority of Republicans still hold a favorable view of Musk, the number fell to 62% in the poll out Wednesday, down from 78% in March, Quinnipiac said.
Overall, the Quinnipiac poll found that 30% of self-identified voters surveyed in the U.S. hold a favorable opinion of Musk, according to polling from June 5 to June 9. Republican and Democratic voters remain deeply divided in their views of the world’s richest man, who contributed nearly $300 million to propel President Donald Trump back to the White House.
Only 3% of Democrats surveyed said they held a favorable of view of the Tesla CEO, who was once seen as an environmental leader appealing to liberal values.
Musk didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Musk and Trump had a very public falling out last week that started with Musk’s disapproval of the president’s spending bill and escalated into an all-out war of words that played out on social media. Musk said on Wednesday that he regretted some of the posts he made about Trump last week, adding that “they went too far.”
Even with a slide in his favorability, Musk is still popular among Republicans after his time running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an effort to dramatically slash the size of the federal government.
Among the Republican respondents to the early June poll, 80% rated Musk and DOGE’s work as either excellent or good, while 13% said it was either not so good or poor. In the March poll, 82% of Republicans surveyed said they thought Musk and DOGE were helping the country.
Read the full survey results here.
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