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2024 Election Updates: ‘Swifties for Kamala’ Targets 250,000 Voters in Pennsylvania
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2024 Election Updates: ‘Swifties for Kamala’ Targets 250,000 Voters in Pennsylvania

At an ongoing hearing in Philadelphia on Elon Musk and his super PACs Million dollar draw for votersa defense attorney said the gift was a way to recruit America PAC spokespeople, while the Philadelphia District Attorney said it was a “scam.”

According to defense attorney Chris Gober, recipients of the million-dollar checks sign contracts after being selected from a group of people who signed the petition to serve as spokespeople for the PAC. Tomorrow’s winner has already been determined to be a registered Michigan voter.

“They were not chosen by chance,” Gober said during the hearing in Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, speaks during a public event hosted by America PAC in support of former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Oaks, Pennsylvania, October 18, 2024.

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Minutes later, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s team played a video in court in which Musk swore the money would be awarded “randomly.”

“So I have a surprise for you is that we’re going to randomly award a million dollars to people who signed the petition every day between now and the election,” Musk told a crowd in Pennsylvania on October 19 .

Testifying on the witness stand, Krasner called the gift a “scam” and a “scam” intended to “flood money into American elections.”

“It’s not a contract and it’s not a job,” Krasner, the first witness at the hearing, said animatedly. “There are certain words that stand out: attribution. That doesn’t sound like a spokesperson contract.”

“This is definitely a random selection, despite what I think is a very misleading version that I think I heard today,” Krasner said.

Krasner testified that America PAC effectively defrauded Philadelphia residents by extracting their personal information – which they had entered to sign the petition allowing them to enter the contest – when the contest never actually offered them a chance chance to win the million dollar prize.

“They were scammed out of their information,” said Krasner, who is asking the judge to stop the contest immediately.

-Peter Charalambous of ABC News