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Hurricane Musk could prove Trump’s greatest asset

It does not matter whether he is driven by pique or by his thirst for tax cuts. The Tesla chief executive and X owner is a powerful ally.

It is hard to say exactly when Kamala Harris’s momentum began to slow. But it was somewhere between her mauling of Donald Trump in last month’s debate and the point when Hurricane Helene made east coast landfall.

That storm, which has wrought the worst devastation in years, is now followed by the equally menacing Hurricane Milton. Amid the flooding, evacuations and death has been a gale surge of disinformation about the US federal government’s alleged negligence. Everything is apparently Harris’s fault, including the weather.

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Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times. He writes about American politics and the economy.

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