Musk is promising to spend $160 million just on getting new voters out to vote for Trump
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Inside Elon Musk’s Hands-On Push to Win 800,000 Voters for Trump
Billionaire’s super PAC has had early stumbles as he tackles national politics in his trademark chaos-be-damned style
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By Dana Mattioli, Joe Palazzolo and Emily Glazer
Aug. 12, 2024 7:55 am ET
Beginning in the spring, Elon Musk quietly blocked out an hour on Fridays for a new pursuit: national politics.
In weekly meetings, consultants and vendors for a super political-action committee updated him on their progress toward the discussed goal of turning out 800,000 people to vote for Donald Trump in battleground states. They proposed a budget of about $160 million they would need for the task, most of it to come from Musk himself, and talked about raising an army of more than 6,000 canvassers and other workers, according to people familiar with the matter.