Musk favorability drops to 23 percent: Survey

Tech billionaire and former Trump administration official Elon Musk’s favorability has fallen to less than 25 percent in a poll released Thursday.

Musk only garnered 23 percent favorability in the CNN poll, with his unfavorability at 60 percent. In the poll, 3 percent of respondents said they had “never heard of” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, while 14 percent were aware of him but had “no opinion.”

Musk, who oversaw the creation of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency and previously appeared to be close with the president and other Republicans, has since taken aim at Trump and GOP members of Congress over multiple issues.

He has continued to inflame public intrigue surrounding convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein amid increasing pressure on the Trump administration to release extra information from the criminal case against Epstein.

The tech billionaire first planted the seeds of the most recent Epstein controversy amid a feud with Trump last month, when he alleged Trump was named in the Epstein files and said, “That is the real reason they have not been made public,” which promoted the White House to push back.

In the CNN poll, the Republican Party garnered 33 percent favorability and 51 percent unfavorability, while 3 percent of respondents said they had “never heard of” the party, and 13 percent said they were aware of it but had “no opinion.”

The CNN poll took place July 10-13, featuring 1,057 respondents and a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.