The candidates certainly think this is true. Remember that Obama ran on the word "change". The "in you believe in" part was often in small text below, or completely omitted.

Trump tried hard to be perceived as an outsider candidate when trying to return to office. Logically, that makes no sense, but I'm sure their research showed it was important.

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kelipso 2 days ago | parent [-]

Trump 2 admin did bring in a lot of outsiders including our beloved Musk and a bunch of other people from Silicon Valley too, and they got rid of a lot of people from the Trump 1 admin. So logically the outsider candidate thing did make sense.

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nitwit005 2 days ago | parent [-]

He didn't name Musk during the campaign. He presumably thought that'd hurt his chances.

	▲	kelipso 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Musk campaigned for him pretty actively. I remember a "chance to win a million dollars if you vote" thing Musk ran in Pennsylvania that was controversial. I don't remember if Musk was part of the official campaign team though, probably not. There were a lot of outsiders, many from the tech scene, in his campaign though. Very obvious show of support from tech billionaires pre-election.