Elon Musk awarded a swing-state resident a million-dollar check for signing his petition to protect freedom of speech and the right to bear arms at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Friday night.

Musk handed an over-sized million dollar check to John Dreher, who Musk said was randomly selected to receive the jaw-dropping sum.

"So, I have a surprise for you..." the billionaire teased the enraptured crowd shortly before calling Dreher up to the stage to receive his prize.

"We're going to be awarding a million dollars randomly to people who have signed the petition every day from now until the election," Musk vowed to thunderous applause from the crowd.

The SpaceX CEO had previously promised his super pac, which he established to support former President Donald Trump this election cycle, would pay $100 to Pennsylvania voters who signed his petition.

"If you’re a registered Pennsylvania voter, you & whoever referred you will now get $100 for signing our petition in support of free speech & right to bear arms. Earn money for supporting something you already believe in! Offer valid until midnight on Monday," Musk posted on X Thursday.

Musk purchased the social media site and took it private in 2022 for a reported $44 billion.

Since then the entrepreneur has been an outspoken advocate for free speech.

The electric car maker said he decided to dole out the million dollar prize because the "legacy media" wouldn't report on his petition.

"How do we get people to know about it? This news, I think, is gonna really fly!" he said before calling Dreher from the crowd.

Dreher grabbed the novelty-check and ecstatically pumped his arms in the air as the crowd roared with enthusiasm.

"The only thing we ask for the million dollars is that you be a spokesperson for the petition," the Tesla CEO said.

Dreher thanked Musk and congratulated him on his rocket catch.

"I've been following you for ten years... and have been a big fan of you ever since," the lucky winner said.

He’s spilling the tea, and lemonade.

Former President Trump told a story about Arnold Palmer at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Saturday night that ended with the former Commander-in-Chief insinuating that the golf legend's manhood was legendary.

Trump opened his remarks by giving a fifteen-minute off-prompter narrative biography of “The King,” who is a beloved native son of Latrobe.

“He knew how to win and he knew how to electrify a crowd,” Trump said of Palmer. “He was an incredible man, an incredible champion, and he came from Latrobe.”

The former President ended his extended remarks on Palmer by insinuating that the dear departed golfer was well-endowed.

“I refuse to say it, but, when he took showers with the other pros they came out of there and they said “oh my God”, unbelievable,” Trump said, cracking up the crowd and himself in the process, adding, “I had to say it.”

“I had to tell you the shower part of it because it’s true.”

The blue remark drew more laughs from the purple state crowd, and Trump continued on with remarks about more serious local issues, such as energy policy.

The airport where Trump spoke was named after the seven-time major champion -- who is now well known for his “Arnold Palmer” drink, a mix of iced tea and lemonade.  He died in 2016.

Pop star Lizzo was ripped online after she claimed that if VP Kamala Harris is elected president "the whole country will be like Detroit" at a rally for the Dem candidate in her hometown.

Harris appeared with the "Truth Hurts" singer at a rally in the motor city Saturday where the two sang the city's praises after former president Trump had disparaged it at an appearance at the Detroit Economic Club last week.

“I mean, the whole country is going to be like — you want to know the truth — it’ll be like Detroit... Our whole country will end up being like Detroit.”

The singer echoed the former president's sentiment but attempted to put a positive spin on it.

"They say if Kamala Harris wins, the whole country will be like Detroit. Proud like Detroit. Resilient like Detroit," Lizzo said to cheers from the crowd.

The automaking hub was once the center of American industry, but has seen a significant economic downturn as American car manufacturers offshored jobs and the country began importing more foreign automobiles.

Detroit currently has an 8.8 percent unemployment rate, more than twice the national average.

Social media users were quick to pan the "Good as Hell" singer's claims.

"Lizzo said, "If Kamala wins, the whole country will be like Detroit,” as she spoke at Kamala rally in Michigan. Does anyone else see a problem with that, or just me?" one account posted.

"My theory has been that Democrats know everything is about to collapse and they actually want Trump to win," comedian David Angelo wrote in a post on X which included the video.

WATERTOWN, Wis. — In a tightly controlled debate format, Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican businessman Eric Hovde traded barbs Friday night in their first and likely only face-off, hosted by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association.

Baldwin and Hovde — in a tight race Cook Political Report just changed to a toss-up with the Democrat ahead by 1 point — accused each other of lying and staked out their policy positions during the frequently contentious debate.

But both candidates agreed on one thing — undefined tough ethics standards and term limits for justices on the nation's highest court. 

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If former President Donald Trump wins Georgia for the first time since 2016, it’ll be because he succeeded in getting a key demographic to come out for him during ongoing early voting and on Election Day.

That’s what an East Carolina University poll shows, with more than one in five black men in the Peach State down with the Donald.

Twenty-two percent of the group backs Trump, with Democrat Kamala Harris at 74% and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 4%.

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Vice President Harris holds a single point advantage over former president Trump in the 2024 presidential election, according to a survey released Saturday from TIPP Insights.

The tracking poll found Harris holding the support of 48% of voters while 47% said they backed Trump.

A critical four percent of the 1,223 likely voters surveyed between Oct 16 and Oct. 18 remained undecided, pollsters said. The poll has a 2.9% margin of error.

While the two are locked in a nail-biter of a race in the critical swing states, the TIPP Insights poll suggests Harris could face a struggle to win the popular vote as well. Both of Trump's previous Democratic rivals, President Biden and Hillary Clinton, each won the popular vote handily.

As in past polls, economic headwinds continued to be a drag on Harris, with 53% of those surveyed saying they felt worse off now compared to their situation before the pandemic. 

David Axelrod is hedging his bets.

The former Obama campaign guru said he would be a “fool” to try and predict who would win the 2024 presidential election, noting the current polling showed the contest was too close to call.

“I’d be a fool to answer that question because you’re talking about margins we have never seen before in polling,” Axelrod told CNN.

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More North Carolina residents turned out to cast ballots during early voting this year than in 2020 -- despite the devasting impact of Hurricane Helene.

A record 353,166 people cast their ballots at more than 400 early voting sites statewide in North Carolina on Thursday, said the State Board of Elections.

Nearly 5,000 fewer people -- 348,599 -- voted on the first day in October 2020.

The number of casted ballots and voters who were registered as of Thursday is expected to increase even further as county election boards continue to input data, board spokesperson Pat Gannon said.

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Jewish support for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee is on track to be the lowest since the Ronald Reagan era, according to a new poll from the Manhattan Institute.

If the election were held today, Harris would win the support of just 67% of Jewish voters, while former President Trump would take 31% of Jews, the survey found. More than four out of five described themselves as “enthusiastic” about their choice.

Though Jewish voters on the whole remain overwhelmingly supportive of Democrats, that support has dipped noticeably from highs achieved during administrations of Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.

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Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman is sounding the alarm about Elon Musk, warning that the world’s richest man and Donald Trump superfan could doom Democrats in Pennsylvania and nationally.

“Musk is a concern,” Fetterman told The Post. “Not even just that he has endorsed [Trump], but the fact that now he’s becoming an active participant and showing up and doing rallies and things like that.

“I mean, [Musk] is incredibly successful, and, you know, I think some people would see him as, like, a Tony Stark,” Fetterman continued, referencing the iconic Marvel character. “Democrats, you know, kind of make light of it, or they make fun of him jumping up and down and things like that. And I would just say that they are doing that at our peril.”

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Former President Donald Trump's campaign account asked if Vice President Kamala Harris was 'drunk' after the Democratic nominee appeared to go off-script at her rally in suburban Detroit.

"Shout your own name for a minute. That's what I'm talking about. Because its about you, its about your families, its about you. That's what I'm talking about," Harris said to cheering supporters.

The campaigns have been trading barbs back-and-forth in the closing days of the election cycle, with Harris' X campaign account accusing Trump of falling asleep at a town hall event earlier Friday.

WATERTOWN, Wis. — In a tightly controlled debate format, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Republican businessman Eric Hovde trade barbs in their first and likely only debate Friday night, hosted by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association.

In one of many contentious moments, moderators asked the candidates whether they would support codifying Roe v. Wade.

Hovde accused Baldwin of pushing for abortions up to the point of delivery of a "healthy baby."

"What month would you stop?" Hovde asked Baldwin as she shook her head. "Is it the eighth month? It's the nighth. Is it the ninth month?"

“I believe that women should have a right to choose early on in their pregnancy," Hovde said of his position, "but there's a point in time where a baby can be born healthy and alive. And I think it's unconscionable to terminate that child's life.”

Baldwin fired back at Hovde, "It’s very clear that he has never read Roe v Wade, I'm pushing to have that be the law of the land. Your rights and freedoms should not depend on your zip code or the state in which you live."

"What he just said, doesn't happen in America!" Baldwin exclaimed, responding to Hovde's accusation she supported aborting almost full-term babies.