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Laura Coates Live

Elon Musk's $1M Giveaways Could Violate Election Law

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

While stumping for former President Donald Trump on Saturday, tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he will give away $1 million each day to registered voters in battleground states, immediately drawing scrutiny from election law experts who said the sweepstakes could violate laws against paying people to register. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight down to the wire as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

0:07.2

continue a battleground bliz.

0:09.6

New before just about every swing state. You get 15 days to go, mind you. Plus testing the limits. A

0:17.3

million dollar giveaway has experts questioning whether Elon Musk's magg a stunt actually violates election law.

0:25.0

And a reckless disregard for the truth, how the Central Park Five are trying to make Trump pay for comments he made during the last presidential debate. All right, it's been no secret for months.

0:44.1

I mean, actually, make it years at this point,

0:46.6

that the race for the White House

0:47.8

would come down to these seven states.

0:50.9

If you thought you'd have a little bit of clarity on who's got the edge just a few weeks away.

0:56.0

Sorry, not going to happen tonight.

0:58.0

A new Washington Post poll shows no clear leader in all seven of these states. In fact, six are within three

1:06.0

points. Harris holding a robust four-point advantage in Georgia. So it all comes

1:11.6

down to these next just two weeks. For both

1:14.7

candidates to try try to close the deal. And naturally, Paris and Trump, they

1:20.9

obviously know that. Racking up, Freckin Flyer Miles,

1:24.1

dotting those battleground states with campaign rallies.

1:27.9

You got Trump in North Carolina, Harris in Pennsylvania,

1:30.9

also Michigan and Wisconsin. Harris is strategy enlisting Liz Cheney

1:36.2

to convince Republicans and those who might be undecided to cast a ballot for her.

1:43.4

I think there are many of us around the country who have been pro-life, but who have watched

1:52.0

what's going on in our states since the Dobbs decision and have

1:56.9

watched state legislatures put in place laws that are resulting in women not getting the care they need.

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