Elon Musk has finally found his place in American politics as the overeager face of the closing argument for Donald Trump's presidential bid.

Musk is a pitchman able to draw attention, which he clearly covets as much as Trump, but look closely and you can see that what he offers in oversized cardboard checks for $1 million doesn't have much value.

Musk has inspired a multiday wave of legal analysis in his odd Pennsylvania sweepstakes of sorts, offering $1 million to registered voters who'll sign a petition from his political action committee in support of the First and Second Amendments.

Yes, it is against federal law to pay someone to register to vote or cast a ballot. But the first three people who "won" the America PAC sweepstakes were already registered to vote in Pennsylvania and had already cast their general election ballots before Musk's odd little circus thrust them into the center ring.

The real value here is how Musk has so incisively – if unintentionally – encapsulated just how vapid the closing days of Trump's reelection campaign have become.

That's not to say Musk isn't actually helping Trump. America PAC has raised $83.7 million this year and 90% of that, to the tune of nearly $75 million, came from Musk.

The PAC is........

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