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Musk Deploys Wealth In Bid To Swing Wisconsin Court Vote

Elon Musk has thrown his political clout, and his world-record fortune, into Wisconsin's supreme court race (Credit: AFP)

The world's richest man took to the stage in the US state of Wisconsin on Sunday in a bid to swing the local supreme court to the right, with the help of two $1 million checks for voters.

Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX and an advisor to US President Donald Trump, deployed his largesse along with his rhetoric to try to turn out the vote on Tuesday in favor of a conservative judge.

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