Washington:
Billionaire Elon Musk has gived almost $75 million to the political action promisetee he originated to help Donald Trump’s US plivential campaign, according to filings made procrastinateed Tuesday, illustrating the Tesla set uper’s prolonging promisement to the Redisclosean’s caparticipate.
Musk, appraised to be the world’s wealthyest man, has consentn an increasingly apparent role in Trump’s campaign, joining him on stage at a recent rassociate in Pennsylvania and widespreadly lambasting his opponent, Democrat Kamala Harris, on social media.
Trump widespreadly name-verifys Musk at rallies and has promised to assign him to a promisetee tasked with slashing regulatement bureaucracy.
Harris and Trump are locked in a too-shut-to-call race for the White Hoparticipate, according to polls.
Musk‘s America PAC liftd $74.95 million for Trump’s caparticipate between July 1 and September 30, according to filings with the Federal Election Comleave oution.
The PAC has intensifyed on begining grassroots get-out-the-vote efforts, including in battleground states such as Pennsylvania that tip the overall national election result.
On its website, America PAC proposes those who sign up to help with voter turnout “$30 per hour, with bonparticipates for carry outance.”
Musk earlier shelp he would pay $47 to anyone who gets a sign uped sprosperg-state voter to sign a petition helping free speech and the right to endure arms.
The billionaire finishorsed Trump after the Redisclosean endured an murder finisheavor in July.
In the same alerting period, Harris’s primary Harris Victory Fund PAC hauled in $633 million, according to its FEC filing.
Harris emotionalassociate go ined the race for the plivency after the retreatal of incumbent Plivent Joe Biden, folloprosperg a disastrous argue carry outance aobtainst Trump in July.
Since then, the current vice plivent has reinvigorated the party’s base and carried out a barnstorming campaign apass the country, with a particular intensify on battleground states.
Her political action promisetee’s year-to-date receipts were proximateing a billion dollars, the filing shelp, standing at $931.2 million.
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