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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An online spat between factions of Donald Trump’s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump’s movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump’s Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies. The debate touched off this week when Laura Loomer , a right-wing provocateur with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump’s selection of Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy in his coming administration. Krishnan favors the ability to bring more skilled immigrants into the U.S. Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy” and said the tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to enrich themselves. RELATED COVERAGE Court rules Georgia lawmakers can subpoena Fani Willis for information related to her Trump case Mexico tests cellphone app allowing migrants to send alert if they are about to be detained in US Canadian ministers head to Palm Beach for talks with incoming Trump administration Much of the debate played out on the social media network X, which Musk owns. Loomer’s comments sparked a back-and-forth with venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks , whom Trump has tapped to be the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar.” Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tasked with finding ways to cut the federal government , weighed in, defending the tech industry’s need to bring in foreign workers. It bloomed into a larger debate with more figures from the hard-right weighing in about the need to hire U.S. workers, whether values in American culture can produce the best engineers, free speech on the internet, the newfound influence tech figures have in Trump’s world and what his political movement stands for. Trump has not yet weighed in on the rift, and his presidential transition team did not respond to a message seeking comment. Musk, the world’s richest man who has grown remarkably close to the president-elect , was a central figure in the debate, not only for his stature in Trump’s movement but his stance on the tech industry’s hiring of foreign workers. Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers, used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, are critical for hard-to-fill positions. But critics have said they undercut U.S. citizens who could take those jobs. Some on the right have called for the program to be eliminated, not expanded. Born in South Africa, Musk was once on an a H-1B visa himself and defended the industry’s need to bring in foreign workers. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent,” he said in a post. “It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.” Trump’s own positions over the years have reflected the divide in his movement. His tough immigration policies, including his pledge for a mass deportation, were central to his winning presidential campaign. He has focused on immigrants who come into the U.S. illegally but he has also sought curbs on legal immigration , including family-based visas. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump called the H-1B visa program “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. After he became president, Trump in 2017 issued a “Buy American and Hire American” executive order , which directed Cabinet members to suggest changes to ensure H-1B visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants to protect American workers. Trump’s businesses, however, have hired foreign workers, including waiters and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago club , and his social media company behind his Truth Social app has used the the H-1B program for highly skilled workers. During his 2024 campaign for president, as he made immigration his signature issue, Trump said immigrants in the country illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country” and promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. But in a sharp departure from his usual alarmist message around immigration generally, Trump told a podcast this year that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. “I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country,” he told the “All-In” podcast with people from the venture capital and technology world. Those comments came on the cusp of Trump’s budding alliance with tech industry figures, but he did not make the idea a regular part of his campaign message or detail any plans to pursue such changes.
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Since joining the Ohio State Buckeyes in 2019, coach Ryan Day has struggled to pick up wins over their rival, the Michigan Wolverines, with his lone victory coming in his first season with the program. These issues continued on Saturday as No. 2 Ohio State suffered its fourth-consecutive loss to Michigan by a final score of 13-10 in front of the Buckeyes faithful in Columbus. Day has struggled to reach the championship expectations the Buckeyes have during his six years with the team. Through his first five seasons, Ohio State has reached the National Championship one time, falling to Alabama to end the 2020 season. © Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Following Ohio State's second loss of the 2024 season, former Buckeyes cornerback Tyreke Johnson, who played under Day in 2019 and 2020, revealed a telling story about his coach from the aforementioned title game, revealing Day "was not the answer." "Y’all can say I’m hating or whatever y’all want but I knew coach Day was not the answer when we played in the national championship against Bama and at half time he didn’t say a word to the team just went in the office and started to blame other coaches," Johnson wrote on X. Y’all can say I’m hating or whatever y’all want but. I knew coach Day was not the answer when we played in the national championship against Bama and at half time he didn’t say a word to the team just went in the office and started to blame other coaches. In the 2020 CFP National Championship, Johnson and Ohio State went into halftime trailing 35-17. It seemed Day didn't give his team the motivation it needed to spark a comeback, as the Buckeyes only scored seven points in the final two quarters, losing the game 52-24. In his two years in Columbus, Johnson didn't see much playing time, only recording eight tackles in 11 combined games. Following 2020, the cornerback transferred to the Nebraska Cornhuskers, finishing up his college career in Lincoln. Day and the Buckeyes (10-2, 7-2 in Big 10 play) will still have a chance to win the program's first national title since the 2014 season, but, with the loss, a conference title seems to be out of the picture. Related: Police Appear to Use Pepper Spray on Michigan, Ohio State Players During BrawlNo. 12 Boise State heads to Wyoming hoping to maintain No. 4 seed in College Football PlayoffMary Trump Slams Uncle Over Alleged Incident Involving Black Girl's Hair: 'He Is A Racist After All'