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Updates on the 2024 US election: Billionaire allies are heading into the election campaign for Trump and Harris

Updates on the 2024 US election: Billionaire allies are heading into the election campaign for Trump and Harris

Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Cuban entered the election campaign on opposite sidespublished October 18 at 12:21 a.m. British Summer Time

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With less than three weeks until Election Day, the Harris and Trump campaigns received support Thursday from some of their wealthiest surrogates.

Mark Cuban, best known as a longtime investor on the reality TV series “Shark Tank,” made an economic presentation on behalf of the Democratic candidate at a rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Cuban fired up the crowd by promising to attack Donald Trump and hit the former president over his tariff proposals.

He “thinks China is paying for it,” he said, adding that “this is the same guy who thought in 2016 that Mexico would pay for the wall.”

On the Republican side, another well-known billionaire – Elon Musk – voted for Trump at a rally in Folsom, Pennsylvania, a state he said was “the linchpin” that will decide this election.

Musk, who has so far spent $75 million on the Republican’s re-election campaign, told supporters at the town hall-style event that under the Biden-Harris administration, the U.S.-Mexico border will look like the zombie movie “World War Z.” “became.

“I think this election will decide the fate of America and, along with America, the fate of Western civilization,” he warned, drawing appreciative cheers from the audience.

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