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Is Elon Musk’s $1 Million Giveaway Legal?

Elon Musk awards a $1 million check during a town hall event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 20.Source: Getty Images North America

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By Erik Larson, Bill Allison, and Zoe Tillman

October 22, 2024 at 10:30 AM UTC

Updated on

October 22, 2024 at 5:38 PM UTC

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Elon Musk’s super political action committee, America PAC, is awarding a daily prize of $1 million to a registered voter in a swing state, the latest effort by the world’s richest person to help get Donald Trump back in the White House. Photographs of Musk handing winners over-sized checks adds yet another plot twist to the US presidential race between the Republican former president and his opponent, Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, which is already among the most dramatic in the country’s history.

Musk’s pro-Trump America PAC is giving away $1 million every day until Election Day on Nov. 5 to a randomly selected signatory of a petition calling for free speech and the right to bear arms. The winner must be a registered voter.