ELON MUSK GETS CLOWNED BY HIS OWN TRUMP CANVASSERS

Trump Outsourced His Campaign to Elon Musk. What Could Go Wrong?

Blowing up seven rockets followed by blowing up Trump get-out-the-vote campaign. Rich does not equal smart.

CJ Sterling
The Polis
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3 min readOct 29, 2024

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Trump says “Jump.” Musk says “How high?” Zillionarie Elon Musk jumps for tax breaks. Image: AP News.

The Trump campaign outsourced their get-out-the vote ground operation to Elon Musk’s America PAC. The result has been a comical shit-show. Aside from glitches with the canvassing app and bad voter data, the “unusual activity” logs suggest a FULL QUARTER of the canvassers in Nevada and Arizona aren’t actually doing their jobs.

A viral video showed Musk canvassers how to scam the app while getting paid to do it. Musk, who has zero experience running a campaign, is a living example of why being stupidly rich doesn’t make you an expert in everything. After spending $70 million trying to turn out voters in a door-knocking effort, a large percentage of canvassers aren’t actually knocking on doors, according to investigative reporting in the UK Guardian.

Some are parking their cars in restaurants for hours and checking off doors in the app, while others mark doors as “knocked” while being blocks away from the actual houses, according to GPS data. To make matters worse, with only two weeks left until the…

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