Elon Musk's Pay-To-Play Scheme To Get Trump Elected
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🗓️ 22 October 2024
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Summary
It's officially two weeks until Election Day, and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants you to vote — for former President Donald Trump, obviously. In fact, Musk wants you to vote so badly that he says he’s giving out $1 million a day to people in swing states who sign his petition supporting the rights to free speech and to bear arms. It’s part of an effort to get more Republicans registered to vote. Except legal experts we spoke with — like Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin and UCLA election law professor Rick Hasen — say the whole scheme is likely illegal.
Later in the show, NPR National Correspondent Sarah McCammon talks about where the white Evangelical vote stands after Roe. v. Wade was overturned.
And in headlines: A major election watcher says Pennsylvania’s Senate race is now a ‘tossup,’ the group of men formerly known as the Central Park Five filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump, and the Biden Administration says it’s proposing a new rule to make private health insurers cover more contraceptives.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, October 22nd. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm Jane Kosten, and this is What a Day, the show that supports the efforts of |
| 0:06.5 | Dunedin, New Zealand, the city that has gone to war against, hugs at the airport |
| 0:10.1 | to keep traffic moving at pickups and arrivals. |
| 0:12.6 | Thank you, Nieden, for fighting the societal ill. |
| 0:15.8 | Hugs have had it too good for too long. |
| 0:18.0 | On today's show, Donald Trump might be getting sued for the words his mouth says, again. |
| 0:27.0 | Plus, a massive expansion of contraception availability. |
| 0:31.0 | Yay! But first, it's officially two weeks until election day and |
| 0:34.4 | Elon Musk wants you to vote. Obviously he wants you to vote for former |
| 0:38.0 | President Donald Trump. That's basically why Elon Musk gets out of bed |
| 0:41.7 | or off his bed or whatever hyper-technical |
| 0:44.8 | extremely expensive thing Elon Musk sleeps in that's basically a bed but just |
| 0:48.7 | called something else. In fact, he wants you to vote so badly that he's giving out money. |
| 0:53.6 | We're going to be awarding a million dollars, |
| 0:57.8 | randomly to people who have signed the petition, |
| 1:01.3 | every day from now until the election. |
| 1:05.0 | 1 million whole dollars to people who sign a petition in swing states |
| 1:09.0 | supporting their rights to free speech and to bear arms |
| 1:12.0 | part of an effort to get more Republicans |
| 1:13.8 | registered to vote. |
| 1:15.3 | And if you're thinking, maybe I should throw my name in there because I can't turn down |
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