Josh Shapiro confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday that he spoke with tech mogul Elon Musk on Sunday — but said politics never came up.
NBC News reported Tuesday that Musk called Shapiro while he was at the Pittsburgh Steelers-Dallas Cowboys game in Pittsburgh over the weekend.
Shapiro acknowledged the political rift between him and Musk, saying, “We obviously didn’t talk about politics” on Sunday’s call.
Musk himself is set to campaign in the state on behalf of Trump, a fact Trump highlighted at a rally Wednesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he called Musk “fantastic.”“He’s going to do a lot.
Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of X and SpaceX, has ties to the state since he attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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