Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to achieve its strongest results in the upcoming national election, marking the first time a far-right candidate seeks the chancellorship. The party's rise is fueled by anti-immigration sentiments and discontent with various policies,

Musk has emerged as a fervent supporter of Alternative for Germany, a far-right, anti-immigrant party that is polling in second place ahead of Germany's parliamentary election.

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, used his closing statement of the debate to promise his voters that he would never allow the AfD into his government. Under him, he said, the firewall would hold.