Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, planned to spend election night with Donald Trump in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago resort, he said on X/Twitter.

Mr. Musk, owner of Tesla and X, has campaigned aggressively for the Republican candidate in key states across the country.

Trump’s campaign is also hosting a watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center for thousands of supporters.

The tech billionaire has become one of Trump’s biggest backers and has donated more than $119 million (£91.6 million) this election cycle to America PAC – a committee political action plan he created to support the former president.

Mr. Musk announced his support for the former president earlier this year, although he said in 2022 “it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat and sail into the sunset.”

He posted a photo Tuesday of himself saying he had voted in Cameron County, Texas — where some of his companies are headquartered — before heading to Florida.

Later in the evening, he wrote on X: “Game, set and match.”

The campaign was feeling confident Tuesday night as supporters gathered at Trump’s Palm Beach Convention Center headquarters to await the results. At one point, the crowd broke out into a dancing celebration at the YMCA.

Huge cheers erupted from the crowd as Florida State was touted as a win for Trump, even though a victory was never in doubt.

Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard arrived at the party, having attended Trump’s more exclusive watch party at Mar-a-Lago.

“There are a lot of really excited people out there” and “cautiously optimistic,” she told the BBC.

Steve Witkoff, a close friend of Trump, was also with him at Mar-a-Lago. There was “a strong sense of enthusiasm and determination,” he said.

The crowd included Blake Marnell, who often wore a brick-patterned suit to Trump events to support Trump’s still-unsubstantiated promise to build a wall along the southern border. He said he was very optimistic about his candidate’s chances.

Sergio Ramirez, a businessman from El Salvador, said Trump could only lose if Democrats “cheated…I don’t see how she could win – Kamala was not a popular candidate.”

Michael, wearing a “Blacks for Trump 2024” T-shirt. “There were more of us during early voting and there are now more of us,” he says.

At a formal event next to the Hilton Hotel, Iowa Republican Delegate Deborah Yanna said it was like “Christmas morning.” “When President Trump takes back the White House, he will make America shine again,” she said.

Elsewhere, Steve Bannon, former chief strategist in Trump’s White House, plans to host an election watch party tonight at the Willard Hotel – the five-star Washington DC hotel that served as its “command center » for Trump loyalists seeking to overturn the 2020 election. election results.

Bannon was released from federal prison a week ago, after serving four months behind bars for contempt of the US Congress.

Kamala Harris will spend election night at Howard Universityhis alma mater and a historically black university in Washington, DC.