- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
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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This gives me hope. There’s a good chance Musk is gonna micromanage this into a ditch.
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.
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.
What “good ideas” were truly his own? He wasn’t even the founder of Tesla.
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.
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.