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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  • Drunemeton@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    1 month ago

    I’ve read some online comments, so reader beware, that Musk & Thiel are grooming Shillbilly Vance to be the next president.

    Trump is being used for his base, but once elected he’ll be put to pasture. Vance will either be pulling his strings, or outright take over.

    Kinda makes sense if you consider that they’ve also been driving the narrative that Biden is a puppet and Kamala has been in charge. “Every accusation is an admission,” and all that.

    • ohellidk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      good god… I’ll need to hide my couch in the cellar for a few years. (and maybe myself, too!) it isn’t safe.

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
    50·
    1 month ago

    I thought one of Trump’s original running premises was that he didn’t need any money to run and that he’d spend his own.

  • Avid Amoeba
    20·
    1 month ago

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

    • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
      122·
      1 month 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
        38·
        1 month 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.

        • ramble81@lemm.ee
          14·
          1 month ago

          What “good ideas” were truly his own? He wasn’t even the founder of Tesla.

          • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            81·
            1 month ago

            There’s accounts that all his ‘good ideas’ at PayPal were actually garbage and rolled back by the actual skilled people there lul. His only saving grace is his money and a little business sense, say what you want but he at least managed to shove money into the right companies and the fact it happened more than once means he has at least some accumen in that field, even if he’s bad at actually managing them. Twitter was forced on him because of his big mouth not necessarily something he ever actually intended to buy.

          • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
            41·
            1 month ago

            From everything that I’ve seen, he’s a moron who got a bunch of ill gotten wealth from his dad which he then used to further exploit people and grow more ill gotten wealth.

            Not a single valuable idea has ever come from this man.

  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 month ago

    This is why you don’t take anything a public personality says to heart. People who make money based off their public persona can and will say anything to maintain an appearance that makes money. Musk said he was a Democrat while donating to conservatives until he was so rich he didn’t need to care about his public persona. Same thing with corporations. Nestle probably says they care about the environment while raping it. Amazon probably says they care about their employees while working them to death. Tons of major corporations are removing DE&I initiatives now that Y’allqaeda has shown its boycotts can be effective.