Billionaire Elon Musk has donated nearly $75 million to the political motion committee he created to help Donald Trump’s US presidential marketing campaign, in accordance with filings made late Tuesday, illustrating the Tesla founder’s rising dedication to the Republican’s trigger.

Musk, estimated to be the world’s richest man, has taken an more and more seen position in Trump’s marketing campaign, accompanying him on stage at a current rally in Pennsylvania and ceaselessly lambasting his opponent, Democrat Kamala Harris, on social media.

Trump ceaselessly name-checks Musk at rallies and has promised to nominate him to a committee tasked with slashing authorities forms.

Harris and Trump are locked in a too-close-to-call race for the White Home, in accordance with polls.

Musk’s America PAC raised $74.95 million for Trump’s trigger between July 1 and September 30, in accordance with filings with the Federal Election Fee. 

The PAC has targeted on launching grassroots get-out-the-vote efforts, together with in battleground states equivalent to Pennsylvania that tip the general nationwide election consequence.

On its web site, America PAC affords those that signal as much as assist with voter turnout “$30 per hour, with bonuses for efficiency.”

Musk earlier mentioned he would pay $47 to anybody who will get a registered swing-state voter to signal a petition supporting free speech and the precise to bear arms. 

The billionaire endorsed Trump after the Republican survived an assassination try in July.

In the identical reporting interval, Harris’s main Harris Victory Fund PAC hauled in $633 million, in accordance with its FEC submitting.

Harris dramatically entered the race for the presidency after the withdrawal of incumbent President Joe Biden, following a disastrous debate efficiency towards Trump in July.

Since then, the present vice chairman has reinvigorated the social gathering’s base and carried out a barnstorming marketing campaign throughout the nation, with a selected give attention to battleground states.

Her political motion committee’s year-to-date receipts had been nearing a billion {dollars}, the submitting mentioned, standing at $931.2 million.

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