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Joe Lonsdale, a Palantir co-founder and financial backer of conservative causes, is definitely happy all around.

“There’s criticism of electric vehicles, but, then again, his biggest backer runs an electric vehicle company. Tesla gets a lot of business in California, so I think it’s an open question,” Martinez said.

The platform provides a bigger megaphone than Truth Social, and Elon Musk, its owner, is now Trump’s most important backer.

Israel sees Iran as the crucial backer of the Hamas attacks which killed about 1,200 people on 7 October last year.

The election will also have an impact on US military aid to Ukraine - America is by far its biggest military backer.