Despite relocating his base of operations to Texas and even founding a town there, Elon Musk has come dead last in a favorability poll of prominent people who live in the Lone Star State. More than 800 registered voters were polled by Texas Public Opinion this week, ahead of a tightly contested race for a Senate seat, during which they were asked to rank various public figures in terms of whether they held a positive view of them. Rep. Colin Allred led the poll with a favorability rating of +6, followed by State Rep. James Talarico and Congressman Joaquin Castro with +5 each. Musk, however, found himself languishing at the bottom, with a favorability rating of -10, lower than that of Attorney General Ken Paxton and President Donald Trump, who had ratings of -9 and -1, respectively. Fifty-one percent of respondents said they have an “unfavorable” view of Musk, with 34 percent claiming to be “very unfavorable” towards the Tesla CEO. It follows a similar poll conducted by Gallup in August, in which Musk was named the most unpopular person in America, with 61 percent of people claiming to have a negative opinion of him.
