America Pac said to be doing bulk of Trump’s voter turnout work in battleground states, which may give Musk leverage

America Pac said to be doing bulk of Trump’s voter turnout work in battleground states, which may give Musk leverage

Elon Musk has donated roughly $75m over the last three months to his pro-Donald Trump spending group, underscoring how the billionaire has become crucial to the Republican candidate’s efforts to win the US presidential election.

Filings submitted by America Pac on Tuesday to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) showed Musk donated $15m (£12m) in July, $30m in August and another $30m in September. Musk remains the political action committee’s only donor.

America Pac has quietly become the principal ground game partner for the Trump campaign, doing the bulk of the voter turnout work across the battleground states, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Musk’s personal political views appear to have taken a sharp turn to the right this election, after previously identifying himself publicly as aligned with the Democrats. He endorsed Trump in July and appeared on stage at Trump’s second rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month.

The shift appears to have started earlier than previously known. Musk has been donating to conservative causes for years, the Wall Street Journal reported this month, giving tens of millions of dollars to rightwing groups.

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  • Avid Amoeba
    9·
    2 hours ago

    This gives me hope. There’s a good chance Musk is gonna micromanage this into a ditch.

    • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
      61·
      1 hour ago

      Same here. Everything Musk has ever touched has turned to shit. Very happy to hear he’s fully responsible for the most important part of the Trump campaign.

      • ohellidk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        The sad thing about musk is that he has actually had a lot of good ideas, but eventually became so consumed by american politics, that it turned him (and a lot of his products) into a total turd. Starlink and SpaceX are big-time technical breakthroughs. If the man worried less about politics, and more about furthering mankind, then we would all be benefitting from it. He had a lot of potential at one point.