Tesla’s CEO made the primary payout at his rally in Pennsylvania whereas urging folks to vote for the Republican US presidential candidate
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has introduced that he’ll award $1 million every day to a swing state resident who indicators his on-line petition in help of the US Structure till the US presidential election on November 5.
Musk launched the petition and a referral supply in early October, having initially pledged a $47 payout to everybody who will get one registered swing-state voter to signal it. The petition on defending free speech and gun rights is geared toward bringing in potential voters for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The CEO of Tesla and proprietor of X (previously Twitter) kicked off his give-away marketing campaign on Saturday by handing the primary test for a million {dollars} to an attendee of his rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, whereas urging folks to vote for the previous US president.
“By the way in which, John had no concept. So anyway, you’re welcome,” Musk mentioned as he gave the test to a person named John Dreher.
With simply over two weeks earlier than the election, the newest polls recommend that Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is outpacing Trump in three battleground states — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
One of many two main US political events, the Republicans and the Democrats, dominates many of the states of the nation. Nevertheless, voters are extra evenly divided within the ‘swing’ or ‘battleground’ states, making them key to profitable.
Daily, from now via Nov 5, @America PAC will probably be gifting away $1M to somebody in swing states who signed our petition to help free speech & the fitting to bear arms!We wish to make it possible for everybody in swing states hears about this and I think this may guarantee they do.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2024
Nationally, the present Vice President leads the previous head of state by two factors amongst doubtless voters, as per polls performed by the New York Occasions.
Musk, who had beforehand positioned himself as politically impartial, publicly endorsed the Republican nominee shortly after the failed assassination try on Trump on July 13. The previous president has promised to create a brand new authorities publish known as ‘secretary of cost-cutting’ tailor-made particularly for Musk if he wins.
Earlier this month, Musk, whose present internet value stands at greater than $247 billion on the Forbes record, mentioned that he had donated $75 million to the America Political Motion Committee, or America PAC, which he had based himself again in July. The group’s main focus is on recruiting canvassers and putting digital advertisements to get Trump supporters to vote.
