Most of the more advanced democracies have rules about not allowing reporting of results until polls are closed for a reason. Many don’t even allow reporting until official results are released. Informal exit polls and advanced opinion polls are bad enough.
The idea is for people to vote for who they think will be the best, not vote for who send to be doing well or poorly up to that point
There’s a chance that Musk has bought himself enough influence to turn conservatives on climate change. I don’t know if I expect it, exactly, but there’s a chance at a scenario where there is at least some progress there.
Granted Musk will mostly use it to enrich himself, but if he at least stops then from repealing green subsidies and the like, that’s movement in the right direction.