Elon Musk Calls AOC A Puppet After Revealing She Wants To Replace Her Tesla With A Union Built EV

In the 2020 elections, the Democrats won both houses of Congress and the presidency. At the time, the party most vocal about climate change taking power was thought to be favorable to Tesla as the EV maker is the leading producer of sustainable products.

However, the relationship between Tesla and the new administration has been anything but smooth. Initial cracks between Tesla and the Democrats started to emerge after Tesla left out of an EV summit held at the White House.

At the time, the EV summit attendees included executives from General Motors, Ford, United Auto workers, as well as Stellantis, the company formed by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France's PSA. During the Summit President Biden congratulated GM CEO Marry Barra for leading the transition to electric vehicles.

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To highlight the absurdity of this statement, in the first 3 months of 2022, GM only delivered 457 electric vehicles worldwide. In comparison, in the same time frame, Tesla has delivered over 300,000 EVs and accounted for more than 70% of EVs sold in the US.

Following Tesla’s snub, relations between the EV maker and the Democrats went downhill even further, as Democrats in Congress introduced a new EV incentive bill.

According to the new bill, Tesla buyers would get an $8,000 federal EV incentive while Ford and GM will get an additional $4,000 for building their EVs in unionized factories.

However, the worst escalation between the democrats and Elon Musk/Tesla came after Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter and restore free speech on the social media platform.

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Following Musk’s announcement, attacks by Democrats on the billionaire started to escalate. Last week Musk was accused of sexual misconduct, which the Tesla CEO has called a politically motivated attack by Democrats.

And most recently, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), representing New York’s 14th district announced that she wants to Replace her white Tesla Model 3 to get another EV made in a unionized factory.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Ocasio-Cortez explained why she bought a Tesla in 2020 saying “at the time, it was the only EV that could get me from New York to Washington on like one, or one-and-a-half charges,” finally the representative added, “I would love to switch.”

And a few hours ago a Twitter user informed Musk of Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to replace her Tesla, in response Musk wrote “the degree to which the unions control the Dems is insane. It’s like watching a sock puppet “talk”, but the hand inside the sock is way too obvious!”

The degree to which the unions control the Dems is insane. It’s like watching a sock puppet “talk”, but the hand inside the sock is way too obvious!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2022

Musk at the same time was also running a Twitter poll asking his followers who they trust less, politicians or billionaires. 75.8% of the 2.7 million participants said they trust politicians less with the remaining 24.2% choosing billionaires.

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After the polls, Musk wrote to representative Ocasio-Cortez saying “I dare you to run the same poll with your followers”. A Twitter user then responded to Musk’s tweet asking “are you picking on her cause she said she wants to switch from Tesla to another EV. Musk simply responded with an eye and smiley face emoji.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2022

As of writing, AOC has yet to respond to Musk’s tweets. However, we will be sure to keep you updated as the story unfolds. Until then, make sure to visit our site torquenews.com/Tesla regularly for the latest updates.

So what do you think? Disappointed to learn AOC, who is a champion of clean energy, is abandoning Tesla? Also, what do you think about Musk’s response calling her a puppet for unions? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

Image: Taken from Elon Musk & AOC’s Wikipedia page, pictures combined by author

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Tinsae Aregay has been following Tesla and The evolution of the EV space on a daily basis for several years. He covers everything about Tesla from the cars to Elon Musk, the energy business, and autonomy. Follow Tinsae on Twitter at @TinsaeAregay for daily Tesla news.