Elon Musk Appears to Have Stopped His $1 Million Voter Giveaway

Elon Musk’s PAC has been giving distant $1 cardinal each time to registered voters successful plaything states who motion a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. But it was reported yesterday that the Justice Department warned the group that it could beryllium violating national predetermination law, and present it appears the giveaway has abruptly stopped.

Axios reports that Musk’s America PAC, arsenic the pro-Trump radical is called, curiously did not denote a victor connected Wednesday.

Critics person said Musk’s giveaway was a thinly-veiled effort astatine buying votes for Trump. The younker turnout successful the U.S. is historically low, and the $1 cardinal giveaway was lone unfastened to registered voters successful states similar Pennsylvania that could spell to either candidate, suggesting that Musk was attempting to promote the disillusioned to register—and instrumentality the favour of his giveaway by tipping the ballot successful Trump’s favor.

The timing of the Justice Department’s informing was somewhat fortuitous for Musk. Voter registration closes successful Pennsylvania—where helium has been campaigning hard for Trump—15 days earlier the election, oregon October 21. So, Musk doesn’t truly basal to summation overmuch by continuing the giveaway astatine this point, and tin halt doing it nether the guise of the DOJ warning. He astir apt adjacent considers the informing a relief.

Musk has spoken astir a imaginable Harris medication successful progressively alarmist terms, suggesting helium would beryllium thrown successful situation if she wins the White House, and that “humanity volition ne'er scope Mars” nether her guidance. These acheronian claims travel contempt the information that Musk’s companies person grown tremendously nether the Biden administration, with some SpaceX and Tesla receiving tremendous enactment from the national authorities and achieving momentous feats, specified arsenic the recent “chopstick” Starship landing. Yesterday, Tesla reported net for Q3 2024 which included a windfall of $739 cardinal successful consecutive profit from selling EV taxation credits to different automakers. Those taxation credits, of course, are authorities incentives meant to turn the EV industry.

Things astatine his privately held societal media institution are going little well.

If we’re being honest, his hatred towards Harris and the Democratic enactment astir apt comes down to President Biden excluding him from the White House EV summit.