Speaking during the Monday, October 21 broadcast of ABC’s “The View,” far-left co-host Whoopi Goldberg had another one of her freak-outs, this time over a new initiative from Elon Musk to drum up support for the conservative candidates ahead of this November’s election. Particularly, Whoopi accused Elon of trying to “buy the election.”
As background, speaking on Saturday the 19th of October, Elon said that he would be giving away a million dollars a day, every day until Election Day in November, to random persons who sign up for his America PAC’s petition, one that calls on candidates to pledge to support the First and Second Amendments.
The mechanics for it are that for the first few days, through Monday the 21st, a winner was chosen from Pennsylvania each day. Then, for the rest of the period, from Tuesday until Election Day, November 5, a petition signer from one of the big battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina will be chosen to win the giveaway prize each day.
Elon, when announcing the giveaway and the petition, said that the million dollars a day offer was meant to draw media attention to the PAC and petition, as otherwise “the legacy media won’t report on it.” That seems to have worked, as it drove Whoopi crazy enough that she ranted about it on her show.
Fuming about the PAC petition prize and accusing Elon of wanting to “buy the election” as shown by it, Whoopi snapped, “People keep trying to buy the election. Billionaire Elon Musk has gone all in for you know who, and now he’s giving out a million dollars a day to people who sign his super PAC’s petition.”
Continuing, Whoopi ranted that she thought giveaway prizes were illegal, insisting that it was a “loophole” that allows Elon to give away prizes for signing a petition. Bloviating, she said, “Now I thought that was against the law, but apparently this, they found some new loop stuff that allowed this to go on. I thought you couldn’t do this.”
As this was the broadcast on which Minnesota Governor and 2024 Kamala Harris running mate Tim Walz appeared, he then chimed in and bizarrely claimed that Musk was only giving away prize money for the pro-1st and 2nd Amendment petition because former President Donald Trump has “no plan for the public.”
Rambling about that and bizarrely connecting it to “reproductive rights,” Gov. Walz said, “When you have no plan for the public, when you have no economic plan that’s going to benefit the middle class, when you have no plan to protect reproductive rights, when you have no plan to address climate change and produce American energy, you go to these type of tactics. It’s all about distraction.”
Chiming back in and continuing with her rambling and random rant, Goldberg then doubled down on the idea that Elon’s giveaway is running afoul of the law, claiming that a giveaway connected to a PAC and petition is “against the law.” Watch them here:
And here was Whoopi on the same episode freaking out about the media’s coverage of Kamala:
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