A judge on Monday denied leftist Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s request to block billionaire Elon Musk’s America PAC from giving away $1 million to registered swing state voters.
Beginning on October 19, Musk’s pro-Trump political action committee began handing out a $1 million check every day to voters in swing states who signed a petition in support of the First and Second Amendments. The final two winners are expected to be announced on Monday night in Arizona and on Tuesday in Michigan, the Associated Press reported.
The giveaways were challenged by Democrats, and Krasner called it a “scam,” arguing that it was “designed to actually influence a national election.” The Philadelphia DA also said that the America PAC giveaways are an illegal lottery that violate state law. Musk’s lawyer Chris Gober pushed back on that claim in court, arguing that “the…