Elon Musk is going to stump for Trump in Pennsylvania

Elon Musk is going to walk the remainder of this week stumping for erstwhile President Donald Trump successful Pennsylvania, a battleground authorities that could determine the destiny of the 2024 statesmanlike election.

Musk won’t beryllium giving nationalist speeches. Instead, helium said he’ll beryllium holding a “series of talks” successful the plaything state, which volition beryllium escaped to be for anyone who has voted successful the predetermination and signed a petition being circulated by Musk’s America PAC. (Pennsylvania early voting began connected October 15th.) Musk’s ace PAC — to which helium claims to person contributed $75 cardinal —is besides giving voters successful plaything states $47 for each registered plaything authorities elector who signs the petition. This is someway not illegal.

It’s imaginable that Musk, who has go obsessed with migration and commencement rates successful caller years and often espouses the large replacement conspiracy theory, has recovered a governmental kindred tone successful Trump. Earlier this month, helium spoke astatine Trump’s rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania, wherever the erstwhile president was shot astatine successful July. According to the New York Times, Musk is “obsessive, astir manic astir the stakes of the election” successful backstage conversations. But the 2 men utilized to beryllium astatine odds: Trump erstwhile said helium could person told Musk to “drop to your knees and beg” for authorities contracts “and helium would person done it.” More recently, Trump has said he’ll consider ending taxation credits for electrical vehicles if reelected, which could wounded Musk’s bottommost line.

In immoderate respects, Musk, arguably 1 of this country’s biggest beneficiaries of authorities spending, has a batch astatine involvement successful this election. But he’ll apt support raking successful national funds careless of who’s successful the White House — truthful there’s not needfully overmuch downside to supporting Trump.