Canvassers Connected to Elon Musk Group Say They Were Tricked to Campaign for Trump, Threatened over Quotas: Report

Mar. 15, 2025

Elon Musk, Donald Trump.Photo:Anna Moneymaker/Getty; ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty

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“I knew nothing of the job, or much of the job description, other than going door to door and asking the voters who are they voting for,” one door knocker toldWired. “After I signed over an NDA, is when I found out we are for Republicans and with Trump.”

PEOPLE reached out to Blitz Canvassing and Musk’s attorney for comment on theWiredreport.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2024.Kevin Dietsch/Getty

Kevin Dietsch/Getty

Wiredreviewed audio allegedly from a manager of the canvassers, who laid out the stakes of why they needed to meet their canvassing quotas.

“What’s gonna happen is, they’re gonna stop paying for these rooms,” the manager said in the recording,Wiredreports. “And then you’re gonna end up having to pay for it yourself. You can’t do that with no money.”

One canvasser alleged that they were told they would have to pay for their own flight home.

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The new report fromWiredis one of many troublesome headlines plaguing Musk as he seeks to bolster Trump’s campaign.

Musk crossed into tricky legal territory when he offered to randomly give $1 million a day to someone who signs a petition pledging support for gun rights and free speech.

The billionaire was offered a warning from the Justice Department that the giveaway may violate federal election law, according toABC News, but as of Thursday, Oct. 31, a lawsuit seeking to block the handouts was put on hold while a federal court considers whether to take the case,Reutersreported.

source: people.com