Pennsylvania judge rejects legal challenge of Elon Musk’s $1m giveawayA Pennsylvania judge has rejected an attempt to shut down Elon Musk’s $1m giveaway scheme, the New York Times reports from Philadelphia:BREAKING FROM PHILLY:Elon Musk wins in Pennsylvania court.The judge just ruled that Musk CAN continue his $1 million sweepstakes, declining to issue an injunction against America PAC.Musk’s team had argued that their paid spokespeople were not lottery winners. Larry… pic.twitter.com/AObJ2o2v5l— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) November 4, 2024

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The $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes that Elon Musk ‘s political action committee is hosting in swing states can continue through Tuesday’s presidential election, a Pennsylvania judge ruled Monday.
Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta — ruling after Musk’s lawyers said the winners are not chosen by chance — did not immediately give a reason for the ruling.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner had called the sweepstakes a scam that violates state election law and asked that it be shut down.
The winners of the sweepstakes did not win by chance but are instead paid spokespeople for the group, Musk’s lawyers said in court Monday.
Musk lawyer Chris Gober said the final two recipients before Tuesday’s presidential election will be in Arizona on Monday and Michigan on Tuesday.
“The $1 million recipients are not chosen by chance,” Gober said Monday. “We know exactly who will be announced as the $1 million recipient today and tomorrow.”
ShareUpdated at 23.00 CETKey eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureLauren GambinoKamala Harris is canvassing for her own presidential campaign in Reading, Pennsylvania, a sign of just how critical the commonwealth’s 19 electoral votes are to her prospects of becoming the next president.According to a pool report, Harris’s motorcade pulled into a residential neighborhood in the city. She was joined at the door by two campaign volunteers holding signs and a clipboard.“I wanted to go door knocking!” Harris told the man, woman and their adult son, who came to the door.Harris then walked to a second home a few doors down. At that house the vice-president rang the doorbell. A woman answered and hugged Harris and enthusiastically told her that she had already voted for her. She indicated that her husband planned to cast his ballot for her tomorrow.Kamala Harris hugs a local resident as she campaigns on 04 November 2024 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty ImagesHer team has been leading a remarkable get out the vote operation, part of the reason they feel confident heading into the final days of the election.On Saturday, the campaign said it knocked 807,000 doors in Pennsylvania – more than 10 times Biden’s margin of victory in the state.Share“For a person that they hate, they sure do show up,” Trump says, referencing the “fake news” journalists in Pittsburgh there to cover the major pre-election speech.“It shows that ratings are more important than hatred, I’ve always said that.”Share“Many people say that God saved me in order to save America,” Trump says, revisiting the assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. “Many, many people are saying that, and with your help, we will fulfill that extraordinary mission together.”The Pittsburgh crowd tonight booed when Trump first mentioned the assassination attempt, which left one of his supporters dead.“That brush with death did not stop us. It only made us more determined to finish the job,” Trump said, of himself and his movement.ShareUpdated at 01.51 CET“Only one day – does that sound nice – one day from now,” Trump says, of tomorrow’s election, and the victory he’s anticipating. “We’ve been waiting four years for this.”“Tomorrow”, Trump says, to cheers. He is standing in front of a crowd of people in plastic hard hats.ShareUpdated at 01.45 CETDonald Trump is now on stage at his rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and will begin speaking shortly. Both he and Harris will be rallying supporters in Pittsburgh tonight.ShareUpdated at 01.40 CETMaanvi SinghAmong the crowd at the Democrats’ East Las Vegas office was Regina Houston, 60 – she had come out to see senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto.“I’m nervous and anxious. I’m nervous about this election, because there’s so much on the line,” she said. “I came down here by myself, because it’s better than sitting home and watching the news.”Houston votes in every election, but this year has felt especially “heavy,” she said.Polls show that Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are locked in a tight race, and even seasoned analysts have been struggled to predict the outcome in this key swing state.Nevada has gone for the Democratic candidate in every presidential race since George W Bush in 2004, but in recent years, Trump appears to have gained support.Houston said she has her fingers crossed that her state will go blue once again.“I can’t imagine America operating and functioning at the level that candidate Trump wants to take us to,” she said.ShareHow active are the Proud Boys ahead of another furiously contested election? Top leaders of the Proud Boys are still in prison for the far-right group’s key role in storming the US capitol on 6 January. But the violent group, known for misogyny, street fighting, and receiving the instruction from Donald Trump in 2020 to “stand back and stand by,” has not collapsed since 2020. NBC News’ Ryan Reilly reports that the Proud Boys are weakened, but still “clearly active,” ahead of the 2024 election.On Telegram, at least 30 channels run by Proud Boys chapters are sharing pro-Trump election information, according to nonprofit Advance Democracy, Reilly reports.While most chapters of the Proud Boys and other active militia groups had not made explicit calls to interfere with the election as of Monday, NBC News reports, there were two notable exceptions.Two Ohio-based Proud Boys chapters have posted that “they’ll be watching the polls on Election Day,” with the Proud Boys of Columbus recently posting “a claim that they had enrolled members as poll watchers and poll workers,” Reilly reports, citing posts reviewed.”Two Proud Boys chapters, both based in Ohio, say they’ll be watching the polls on Election Day, according to posts reviewed by @NBCNews.””The Proud Boys of Columbus posted a claim that they had enrolled members as poll watchers and poll workers.”https://t.co/1QNZaXbtTF— Lois Beckett (@loisbeckett) November 5, 2024

“It’s not clear whether claims that they are watching the polls or are embedded as election volunteers will result in any real-world action,” Reilly notes. Far-right groups often make exaggerated public claims about the actions that they’re going to take, or the access that they have, and don’t follow through. Making the public afraid of what they might could is sometimes victory enough.ShareMaanvi SinghOn election eve, Democrats in Nevada are doubling down on door knocking efforts – making last pitches to get out the vote.In East Las Vegas, Democratic senator Jacky Rosen gave canvassers one last pep talk. “We’re at the finish line now, and whatever you do, it makes a difference,” Rosen said. “One last call, one last door knock.”Rosen is leading in polls as she fights for reelection against Republican Sam Brown. But more Republicans than expected have voted early, and a PAC associated with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has recently spent $6m on ads to promote Brown.Canvassers for Rosen and the Harris/Walz campaign have been deployed across the state to make final pleas to voters.Rosen appeared alongside her fellow Nevada senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, at an afternoon canvass launch.“This is how we win in Nevada, Because of all of you!” Said Cortez Masto. “We organize our way to victory, right?”The few dozen canvassers cheered. And a few who were standing near a call in the campaig office knocked on wood.ShareKamala Harris has been canvassing in Pennsylvania this evening, where she went door knocking in Reading in an attempt to win over voters just hours before polls open on Tuesday.“It’s the day before the election and I just wanted to come by and say I hope to earn your vote,” Harris told one person, who informed the Democratic candidate “you already got my vote.”Harris visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading earlier on Monday, joined by Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Harris initially said she wanted to order a “spicy taquito” but later said she also wanted the rice, plantains, pork and cassava, Associated Press reported.“I’m very hungry. I don’t get to eat as often as I like,” she said.Kamala Harris visits Old San Juan Cafe restaurant with restaurant owner Diana de La Rosa and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., during a campaign stop in Reading, Pa. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/APShareLauren GambinoJazmine Sullivan, the R&B star, just took the stage at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, addressing supporters: “Are we ready to make history tomorrow?”She encouraged Pennsylvanians to vote for Kamala Harris when polls open tomorrow.“I feel safer when there’s a woman in leadership,” she said.Abortion rights were under assault across the country, she said, dedicating her rendition of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On to the cause.“Because what’s going on?” she said.ShareUpdated at 01.24 CETJD Vance is once again being condemned for misogyny after repeatedly calling Kamala Harris ‘trash’ at campaign rallies.The Republican vice-presidential nominee compared Harris with trash at a New Hampshire rally yesterday, then did it again today in Flint, Michigan, and Atlanta, Georgia:Mainstream political commenters have not been complimentary to Vance’s choice to make the closing argument for the Trump campaign so explicitly “nasty”.“Oh, JD Vance, you just effed up in a way that I’ve never seen in my political life, and I worked for Sarah Palin,” MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace said.Watch “JD Vance you just f’ed up in a way I’ve never seen in my pollical life and I worked for Sarah Palin” – Nicole WallaceJD Vance just called Kamala Harris TRASH at his final rally in Atlanta, Georgia. pic.twitter.com/xjJHQ0KRPC— Chris Borkowski (@cborkowski) November 4, 2024ShareUpdated at 01.12 CETLauren GambinoHours before election day, a crowd has amassed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where Kamala Harris will hold the last rally of her lightning-fast presidential campaign.Kamala Harris will hold the final rally of her 100+ day campaign in Philadelphia later tonight, with a view of the “Rocky Steps” illuminated in blue pic.twitter.com/9TSgT7e4nS— Lauren Gambino (@laurenegambino) November 4, 2024The 72 “Rocky Steps” were illuminated in blue lights with scrolling LED signs that say Vote for Freedom and Vote. The DJ is spinning Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer.The lines to get in wrapped for ages and people came prepared for a long night. Harris will appear at a rally in Pittsburgh before landing in the city of Brotherly Love for what is expected to be a star-studded event.ShareUpdated at 01.11 CETAfter Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate, TikTok and Instagram saw the emergence of a particularly vicious kind of misinformation – that Harris stole someone’s husband, specifically Willie Brown, a former mayor of San Francisco.This is false. But these rumors were soon translated into Chinese and posted on X, with the language becoming “even more inflammatory”, according to the Chinese factchecking group, PiYaoBa. One Chinese influencer, whose tweet garnered more than 60,000 views, translated “stole a woman’s husband” as “mistress”.This translation spread to other Chinese platforms like WeChat, accumulating more than 100,000 views and leading some users to refer to her using the word “chicken”, which in Mandarin is often a slur for sex workers.It suggests how English-language misinformation is not only spreading in other languages – it also takes new, culturally specific forms.Read the full story here: Chinese Americans targeted with ‘misogynistic and insulting’ election misinformationShareTrump ally Nigel Farage says ex-president should accept result and ‘play golf’ if he losesNigel Farage, the leader of the UK’s Reform party, said Donald Trump should accept the result of the election and “go play golf” if he loses decisively to Kamala Harris.In an interview with the Telegraph at Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, Farage said: “If it was clear and decisive then maybe it’s time [for Trump] to go and play golf at Turnberry.”Farage said he has “never gone along with” Trump’s 2020 stolen election narrative, adding that “let’s hope and pray that is not an issue this time. If it [the outcome] was clear then Republicans have to accept the result.”He suggested that Harris could move to quell any potential unrest if she wins the election by pardoning Trump once in office. “If she gets in on Tuesday I hope she pardons him. She could look magnanimous and it would dampen down potential tensions,” he said.However, he added: “It’s all hypothetical and I still think he is going to win.”Farage attended Trump’s rally earlier today in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he hailed his “special relationship” with the Republican presidential candidate.ShareUpdated at 01.10 CETDani AnguianoAs Shasta county, California, grapples with a thriving election denialism movement that has amplified conspiracy theories about voter fraud and made life increasingly difficult for election workers, residents of one of California’s most conservative counties are bracing for a contentious election.In recent weeks, some residents of Shasta county, home to 180,000 people in the state’s far north, have urged the county not to certify the election results while one official warned that if Donald Trump is “cheated” out of the election, there would be “a price” to pay.Share