Is Elon Musk trying to buy American votes?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Why is Elon Musk offering voters in Pennsylvania the chance to win a million pounds a day by registering to vote? Well, we can all probably work out the answer. He's Trump's number 1 fanboy and reckons he has a lot to gain if he can swing this swing state to make Trump president.
Democrats are trying to work out if it constitutes election interference - and whether they realistically have a chance of fighting it in court. Meanwhile, closer to home, the Moldovan president reckons the Russians were playing a similar game in her elections this weekend.
A referendum that would see Moldova form closer EU ties was won by a whisker - when a landslide had been predicted - after Russian bribe money flooded the country. The aim was to get this former Soviet bloc country to turn its back to Europe and re embrace Putin. Why cant we work out how to stop election interference when we can spot it everywhere?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | So, and then the next thing we'd like to do is to announce today's winner of the million-dollar prize. |
| 0:23.0 | So it's Christine Fischel. |
| 0:26.2 | Would you like to come up? |
| 0:31.9 | Okay. |
| 0:34.7 | That's Elon Musk, giving away a million dollars, just an ordinary day in Muskland. |
| 0:40.9 | You'll remember that Trump himself started life as a game show host on The Apprentice. |
| 0:46.0 | And now it seems the genre is back in fashion. |
| 0:49.6 | This time, they're just trying to fix an election. |
| 0:51.8 | Who wouldn't want to win a million dollars? |
| 0:55.8 | But the US legal system is clear. |
| 0:59.3 | You cannot pay someone to vote for someone else |
| 1:02.0 | and you cannot pay someone to register to vote. |
| 1:06.2 | So how is what Elon Musk is doing possibly legal? |
| 1:11.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:17.6 | It's John. |
| 1:18.6 | It's Emily. |
| 1:20.6 | And between now and polling date, two weeks away, or two weeks tomorrow, Tuesday, |
| 1:26.6 | Elon Musk has come up with this lottery raffle prize |
| 1:31.3 | where for the next... |
| 1:32.3 | Tombollah. Tombollah, Tombollah to make it church fate like. You're going to win a million |
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