Mr Musk said he wants to get “over a million, maybe two million, voters in the battleground states to sign the petition in support of the First and Second Amendment”.

Several legal experts argue the offer is illegal or coming "close" to illegal, while others say it is merely "distasteful."

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He has described his childhood as difficult, affected by his parents' divorce, bullying at school and his own difficulty picking up on social cues because of Asperger's Syndrome.

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He recalled addressing a group of "hundreds of thousands", apparently referring to his speech outside the White House shortly before the riot.

"And when I say we, these are people that walked down - this was a tiny percentage of the overall which nobody sees and nobody, nobody shows. But that was a day of love."

After being accepted to a physics graduate degree programme at Stanford University, Mr Musk quickly dropped out and founded two technology start-ups during the "dotcom boom" of the 1990s.

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According to Halperin and co-host Sean Spicer, who served as Trump's first White House press secretary, the timing of these pitches is vlogdolisboa youtube predictable as campaigns near their final stages on the look out for dramatic revelations that could sway undecided voters at the last minute.

The first lottery-style cheque was given away to a surprised attendee at a town hall event in Pennsylvania on Saturday night. Another cheque was handed out on Sunday.

After the publication of the Politico story, the Trump campaign X account criticized the reporter and pointed to the overall frequency of the former president's media interviews compared with Harris, who has been running for president for a fraction of the time as Trump.

Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Mr Musk showed his talents for entrepreneurship early, going door-to-door with his brother selling homemade chocolate Easter eggs and developing his first computer game at the age of 12.

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