WASHINGTON: Elon Musk, a technology mogul who is the richest person in the world, invested more than $70 million to help Donald Trump and other Republicans win the November election, making him one of the largest donors to Republican causes this campaign season, according to campaign finance. revelations published this week.
Musk made the donation over the summer to America PAC, a super political action committee he launched in May to help Trump in his bid to return to the White House. He quickly became a central player in Trump’s election effort. “The US PAC simply aims for common sense and centrist values,” the founder of Space campaign finance document.
Super PACs like Musk’s America PAC can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money, but are typically prohibited from coordinating their efforts with the candidates they support. A recent opinion from the Federal Election Commission, which regulates federal political campaigns, allowed candidates and these big-spending groups to work together in so-called ground-gaming efforts, which are armies of people deployed to knock on doors to help get out the vote. the vote.
While candidates and political parties have traditionally organized and paid for such efforts, Trump’s campaign has struggled to raise money this year and has turned to a handful of outside groups to carry out the work, with Musk’s America PAC being the main of them. But in doing so, the campaign has outsourced a central function to a circle of unproven groups that operate independently. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to have an outside group canvass him is said to be one of the reasons his presidential bid failed.
So far, the US PAC has spent more than $38 million on voter “selection” efforts, according to campaign finance disclosures. Much of the US PAC money has been paid to a handful of consulting firms, including some that are linked to Phil Cox, a former DeSantis presidential campaign aide and former executive director of the Republican Governors Association. Ventures under the umbrella of Cox’s various companies have raised at least $21 million since August, records show.
Trump’s outsourcing of much of his get-out-the-vote effort is not the only unorthodox strategy his campaign has adopted this year. His campaign and allies have also abandoned the traditional approach to getting out the vote, which typically focused on winning independent or moderate voters to their side.
Instead, they are trying to boost turnout among Trump supporters who rarely vote, a novel if risky approach. Although Musk is the largest donor to America PAC, he is not the only one. The super PAC also raised about $8.75 million from a handful of wealthy donors, including the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, the feuding creators of Facebook. The super PAC has spent nearly $80 million this year. Although most of the spending has gone toward the presidential race, at least $5 million has been spent to help Republican House candidates.
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