Hillary Clinton’s lawyer had one scheme backfire that put Elon Musk in the driver’s seat

Elon Musk emerged as one of the biggest political players during the election. 

His efforts to support Donald Trump had some surprising help. 

And Hillary Clinton’s lawyer had one scheme backfire that put Elon Musk in the driver’s seat. 

Democrat lawyer fights for an election law change that helps Republicans

Democrats are always trying to manipulate election law to their benefit. 

They have an army of lawyers trying to bend the rules in their favor. 

Democrat lawyer Marc Elias worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and has become the top election law expert for his party. 

The Elias Law Group asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to allow a super PAC funded by globalist billionaire George Soros to coordinate with political campaigns and the Texas Democrat Party. 

Coordination between campaigns and outside groups like PACs was expressly forbidden under federal campaign finance law. 

The FEC surprised everyone by issuing a ruling last spring that outside groups and campaigns were allowed to coordinate on get-out-the-vote efforts like canvassing voters. 

Conservative attorney Alexander Lee understood the implications of this inside baseball move by the FEC. 

“When this came out, I don’t think many, outside a select few political law practitioners, fully realized the implications of this advisory opinion,” Lee explained. “I was kind of running around town and making sure everyone on our side knew the changing landscape because I knew the Elias Law Group probably had a pre-written memo to implement this strategy for their clients.”

Republicans were quick to take advantage of this rule change. 

“But our side quickly got on top of it and, from the top of the ticket down, implemented this new campaign strategy effectively,” Lee said. 

Elon Musk’s super PAC takes advantage of get-out-the-vote changes

President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign was widely mocked by Democrats and the Republican establishment for how it handled its get-out-the-vote operation. 

Traditionally, campaigns run most of it in-house. 

The Trump campaign outsourced most of its get-out-the-vote activities to outside groups including Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s America PAC. 

This is the basic blocking and tackling of politics. 

Knocking on the doors of targeted voters, making phone calls, sending text messages, and leaving literature. 

Musk poured more than $200 million into America PAC which acted as the Trump campaign’s ground game in swing states. 

The Trump campaign also worked with another group that was created by allies of Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. 

Turnout for America deployed door knockers to all seven swing states. 

“Our mission is simply to execute on the president’s ground game plan — the thought leadership is theirs,” Turnout for America head Chris Buskirk – a friend of Vance’s – said in a memo. “The ads and the air war are theirs. The on-the-ground muscle is ours.”

These outside groups took the weight off the Trump campaign’s shoulders and focused on turning out voters. 

Trump’s data consultant Tim Saler was able to get data collected by these outside groups. 

“Thank you, Marc,” Saler said after Trump’s victory. “We appreciate you.”

Democrats ended up helping Donald Trump more than they ever could have imagined by getting an obscure rule changed.