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The world’s richest man’s stumping for former President Donald Trump set one battleground state senator on edge over a particular comic book character’s appeal.

“…I think some people would see him as, like, a Tony Stark.”

That seven battleground states will likely spell the difference between Trump’s return to the White House or Vice President Kamala Harris’ promotion was readily acknowledged. As such, billionaire Elon Musk was personally holding town halls on behalf of the GOP leader, prompting Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) to express his worries over the affable tech entrepreneur.

“Musk is a concern,” the lawmaker told the New York Post during an interview. “Not even just that he has endorsed [Trump], but the fact that now he’s becoming an active participant and showing up and doing rallies and things like that.”

“I mean, [Musk] is incredibly successful, and, you know, I think some people would see him as, like, a Tony Stark,” said Fetterman in his latest cautionary remarks, likening the billionaire to Marvel’s Iron Man, the Avenger iconically portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the comic book studio’s cinematic universe.

“Democrats, you know, kind of make light of it, or they make fun of him jumping up and down and things like that. And I would just say that they are doing that at our peril,” he said referencing Musk’s appearance alongside Trump when the president had returned to Butler, Pennsylvania 12 weeks after a would-be assassin had opened fire on his rally.

During the event, the billionaire had told the crowd as he embraced “dark MAGA,” The true test of someone’s character is how they behave under fire. And we had one president who couldn’t climb a flight of stairs, and another who was fist pumping after getting shot. Fight! Fight! Fight! Blood coming down his face.”

In the wake of the first assassination attempt on Trump at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally, Musk had been quick to endorse the GOP leader. He’d also reacted to security concerns that he too might face for his political stance by saying, “Maybe it’s time to build that flying metal suit of armor.”

Unlike other investors, the entrepreneur hadn’t simply cut a check for the GOP and continued about his day attempting to revolutionize the future. Instead, he launched the America PAC and was seen fielding questions from voters across Pennsylvania Saturday as he expressed how Trump would work toward diminishing the establishment amid talk the businessman would join the administration as a “Secretary of Cost-Cutting.”

“But you have to have that mandate from the president, and we need a real president, not a puppet,” the SpaceX founder said to applause. “The thing that scares the system, that scares the machine, is that Donald Trump is not a puppet. He’s a real person and he’s not beholden to anyone and that’s why, you see sort of, that they’re trying to kill him.”

The impact Musk could have loomed large to the senator as he told the Post his home state, which Trump won in 2016, would be “ridiculously close” and that “Trump has a connection that’s undeniable. And anyone that spends any time across Pennsylvania can see that kind of devotion and that’s why it’s going to be very close.”

“Pennsylvania picks the president,” he added as the GOP leader picked up the endorsement of steelworkers Saturday. “I’d like to remind everybody that [President Joe] Biden is the only person that’s ever beaten Trump.”

As for the way his party was handling the race, Fetterman spoke to the manner in which Biden was replaced on the ticket and argued, “It was a total blowtorch. You had the Democratic side, you have the ongoing, right wing media, and the the celebrities got involved in it as well, too. And then the New York Times became the, ‘he’s got to go’ outlet throughout all that as well.”

Where the vice president was concerned, the senator suggested that what had been seen on the trail was the best she could offer as he told the newspaper, “Harris could not have run a better campaign than she has so far right now.”

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