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In August, former President Donald Trump called the billionaire Elon Musk “a super genius guy.” That “super genius” and his new America PAC have now taken over much of the Trump campaign’s swing-state soil game in the ultimate weeks before the election. Since creating the PAC in April, Musk has infused it with nearly $120 million to attempt to get out the vote for Trump. But, as it turns out, winning a presidential election may not be as simple as colonizing Mars or wrecking Twitter—especially for a political neophyte.
Musk offered people money to register to vote and then subsequently got sued by the Philadelphia district attorney and warned by the Justice Department that the scheme is likely illegal. He hired an army of canvassers only to see many of them game a GOTV app to make it appear as if they had knocked on hundreds of doors, when, in truth, they may have been just sitting at Starbucks. And in late August, he made a $1 million donation to a political action committee founded by
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