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Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles

Elon Musk’s canvassing operation sued in California for alleged labor law violations

Elon Musk in Maga cap.
The billionaire’s ground game operation has come under scrutiny recently. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Elon Musk’s troubled canvassing operation on behalf of Donald Trump and the Republican party is now facing a lawsuit in southern California filed by two women who say they were cheated out of wages and expenses as they knocked on doors for an embattled Republican congresswoman.

The suit accuses Musk’s America Pac, which has poured more than $100m into this year’s election campaign, of “willful violations of the California labor code” by paying the plaintiffs less than it promised and refusing to make up the difference.

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