Taking the stage in Green Bay wearing a yellow foam cheesehead hat, Elon Musk gave out $1 million checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters.
Elon Musk's spending in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election race not only failed to secure his candidate the win, it may have actively hurt his own campaign, according to experts. Musk spent over $25 million supporting GOP-backed Brad Schimel in the race against the Democrat's pick,
The case was brought by the Midwestern state's attorney general over payments Musk has offered to individuals who sign an election-related petition.
Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday clarified his reasons for visiting Wisconsin two days ahead of its hotly contested Supreme Court election after deleting a social media post saying he planned to "personally hand over" $2 million.
Musk took to X to announce that "Scott A." from Green Bay had won the sum for signing Musk's "Petition In Opposition To Activist Judges."
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The ruling came after the Wisconsin Court of Appeals denied a bid by Attorney General Josh Kaul to stop Elon Musk from issuing payments to voters.
Crawford described her opponent Brad Schimel as "quite gracious" in his call to her conceding the race Tuesday night.
A Wisconsin man has been awarded a surprise million dollars for his participation in a petition posted by Elon Musk.
Musk and his affiliated groups sunk at least $21 million into the normally low-profile race and paid three individual voters $1 million each for signing a petition in an effort to goose turnout in the pivotal battleground state contest.