SpaceX and Tesla laminitis Elon Musk participates successful a municipality hall-style gathering to beforehand aboriginal and absentee voting astatine Ridley High School connected October 17, 2024 successful Folsom, Pennsylvania.
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Billionaire Elon Musk promised connected Saturday to springiness distant $1 cardinal each time until November's predetermination to idiosyncratic who signs his online petition supporting the U.S. Constitution.
And helium wasted nary time, awarding a $1 cardinal cheque to an attendee of his lawsuit successful Pennsylvania aimed astatine rallying supporters down Republican Donald Trump. The victor was a antheral named John Dreher, according to lawsuit staff.
"By the way, John had nary idea. So anyway, you're welcome," the Tesla laminitis said arsenic helium handed Dreher the check.
The wealth is the latest illustration of Musk utilizing his bonzer wealthiness to power the tightly-contested presidential race between Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris.
Musk started America PAC, a governmental enactment action helium founded successful enactment of Trump's statesmanlike campaign. The radical is helping mobilize and registry voters successful battleground states, but there are signs it is having occupation gathering its goals.
The Harrisburg lawsuit is the 3rd successful arsenic galore days successful Pennsylvania, wherever Musk is coating November's predetermination successful stark presumption and encouraging supporters to ballot aboriginal and get others to bash the same.
He said connected Saturday that if Harris wins, it volition beryllium "the past election," suggesting the U.S. volition nary longer exist.
He besides said the two assassination attempts against Trump beryllium helium is ruffling feathers and upending the presumption quo successful ways Harris won't. He said that's wherefore nary 1 is trying to termination Harris.
"Assassinating a puppet is worthless," Musk said, reiterating an statement helium has made successful a societal media post.
The petition Musk is asking radical to motion reads: "The First and Second Amendments warrant state of code and the close to carnivore arms. By signing below, I americium pledging my enactment for the First and Second Amendments."
Attendees of Saturday's lawsuit had to motion the petition, which allows America PAC to garner interaction details for much imaginable voters that it tin enactment to get to the polls for Trump.
Musk, ranked by Forbes arsenic the world's richest person, truthful acold has supplied astatine slightest $75 cardinal to America PAC, according to national disclosures, making the radical a important portion of Trump's bid to regain the White House.
The entrepreneur down carmaker Tesla and rocket and outer task SpaceX has progressively supported Republican causes and this twelvemonth became an outspoken Trump supporter.
Trump successful crook has said if elected helium would name Musk to caput a authorities ratio commission.
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