Musk Offers $1 Million Checks to Voters Amid Wisconsin Courtroom Race

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He introduced a billionaire good friend, $1 million checks and a Packers cheesehead hat. A pastor prayed for him. A superfan begged him for a observe on X.

Elon Musk was the star of a 2,000-person rally on Sunday evening in Wisconsin — ostensibly for the conservative candidate in a carefully watched state judicial race — simply 36 hours earlier than polls open on Election Day. In fact he was.

The billionaire Mr. Musk regarded very very like a candidate at this rally, placing himself entrance and middle within the ultimate stretch of an election pitting two rivals towards one another, neither of them named Elon Musk: Brad Schimel, the conservative within the race, and Susan Crawford, the liberal.

The closing moments of campaigns are extremely choreographed. Mr. Musk’s go to to assist Choose Schimel on the eve of the election was voluntary — Choose Schimel didn’t even attend the occasion. Mr. Musk appeared comfy making himself the face of these closing arguments, and dwelling with the outcomes.

Nobody pressured Mr. Musk to go to the state, clearly. Regardless of entreaties from Wisconsin Republicans, President Trump declined to make the same journey, maybe sensing that the race is one conservatives are likelier to lose than to win, and that probably the most outstanding booster might get tagged with blame.

Former Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, was amongst these hoping for a Trump go to. He mentioned in an interview that he thought Mr. Musk was insulated to some extent from the politics of credit score and finger-pointing.