Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Cuban hit the campaign trail – on opposite sidespublished at 00:21 British Summer Time 18 October
Image source, ReutersWith less than three weeks to go until election day, the Harris and Trump campaigns are getting help from some of their richest surrogates on Thursday.
Mark Cuban, best known as a long-time investor on the Shark Tank reality TV series, made an economic pitch on behalf of the Democratic candidate at a rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Firing up the crowd with a promise to pick on Donald Trump, Cuban hammered the former president over his tariff proposals.
He “thinks that China pays for them”, he said, adding that “this is the same guy that thought that Mexico would pay for the wall” back in 2016.
On the Republican side, another well-known billionaire – Elon Musk – stumped for Trump at a rally in Folsom, Pennsylvania, a state he said would be “the lynchpin” that decides this election.
Musk, who has so far spent $75m on the Republican’s bid for re-election, told supporters at the town hall style event that the US-Mexico border had become like the zombie film “World War Z” under the Biden-Harris administration.
“This election, I think, is going to decide the fate of America, and along with America, the fate of western civilisation,” he warned, to approving cheers from the audience.
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