With less than two weeks until Election Day, the richest person in the world is throwing himself into the effort to elect the former president.

At an event in the swing state of Pennsylvania, Musk, the world’s richest man, with an estimated wealth of $246bn (£190bn), announced he would be giving away $1 million (£774,000) per day to registered voters in seven key states who had signed a petition for his America PAC (political action committee).