"It's like the leftism, they will not draw the connection between their leftist ideology and the destruction that's all around them," DeSantis said. "It is a problem because I do think there's a class of voters who would come to Florida, and they would continue to vote the same way." Tesla moved its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to a large factory under construction outside of Austin, Texas, in a high-profile move late last year. At the time, Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives said in October that he expected some of Tesla's 10,000 employees wouldn't want to leave the Bay Area but a large number would due to Austin's lower cost of living. Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday struck a deal to acquire social media giant Twitter, another company currently with headquarters in California. Unlike California, Florida's net migration and immigration gain of 259,480 was the most in the country between July 1, 2020 and July 1, 2021, Florida Politics reported.