It was the battle of the billionaires on the stump on Thursday in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Mark Cuban joined Kamala Harris at a rally in Wisconsin, warning about Trump’s proposed plan to drop fresh tariffs on up to 60% of goods from China in a crazy bid to make America garbage again.
“This man has so little understanding of tariffs, he thinks that China pays for that. This is the same guy who also thought that Mexico would pay for the wall,” Cuban said.
On Tuesday, Trump told an audience at the Economic Club of Chicago, “To me, the most beautiful word in the world is ‘tariff.'”
Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, billionaire Tesla and X owner Elon Musk peddled election conspiracies and offered $100 to registered voters to sign a pro-Trump petition.
The petition reads, “The First and Second Amendments guarantee freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. By signing below, I am pledging my support for the First and Second Amendments.”
Musk also offers an addition $47 for each subsequent registered voter someone refers to the petition. If the payments ends up more than $600, those Pennsylvanians will be required to fill out an IRS form — but there appears to be no limit of the number of referrals. The offer expires October 21.
While federal law dictates that paying individuals to vote or accepting payment for voter registration or voting is an offense, compensating people for signing petitions or for convincing others to sign petitions is not against the law.
Musk continues to promote election fraud conspiracy theories in vague ways on X, and continued to question election integrity, without any proof, on stage in Pennsylvania.
“When you have mail-in ballots and no, no sort of proof of citizenship, it becomes almost impossible to prove cheating, is the issue,” Musk falsely claimed.
“There’s some very strange things that happen that, that are statistically incredibly unlikely,” Musk continued. “So, there’s always a question of, like, say, the Dominion voting machines. It is weird that, I think, they’re used in Philadelphia and in Maricopa County, but not a lot of other places. Doesn’t that seem like a heck of a coincidence?”
