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Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Workers Were Driven Around in Back of U-Haul Van and Tricked Into Helping Trump

Story by Charlie Nash

One of several Michigan door-knockers has claimed they were tricked into helping billionaire Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump’s get-out-the-vote efforts, and were driven door-to-door in the back of a U-Haul van.

According to a Wednesday report from Wired magazine, door-knockers contracted by a company associated with Musk’s America PAC were “subjected to poor working conditions,” including being “driven around in the back of a seatless U-Haul van,” and were “threatened that their lodging at a local motel wouldn’t be paid for if they didn’t meet canvassing quotas.”

In addition to threats about motel rooms, workers were also allegedly told they would have to pay for their own flights home.

Blitz Canvassing, a subcontractor, reportedly received more than $9 million from Musk’s PAC to operate the door-knocking campaign. However, workers were reportedly left unaware who exactly it was they were working for.

“I knew nothing of the job, or much of the job description, other than going door to door and asking the voters who are they voting for,” said one worker, who was photographed in the back of the U-Haul van. “Then, after I signed over an NDA, is when I found out we are for Republicans and with Trump.”

The van came as a surprise to door-knockers, the worker alleged, and they supposedly only knew of Musk’s involvement after they “overheard” several people mentioning the billionaire’s name.

“We were all told our transportation would be handled and we’d be in rental cars. It turned out to be U-Haul vans,” they said. “I felt embarrassed and played.”

According to Wired, the “mostly Black door knockers” experienced a bumpy ride in the back of the seatbelt-less van, separated from the driver by “a cage.”

“The driver also told the group of door knockers that he was in pain and had difficulty driving,” Wired reported, with the driver reportedly complaining, “I just had surgery, bro… Like half of my foot is cut off.”

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