Pollsters for Elon Musk’s America PAC say they were flown to Michigan and told they had to meet unattainable quotas or risk paying for their own lodging and traveling home. They were then unceremoniously fired after some of them spoke to the press.

The workers (many of whom are black) said cabling that Blitz Canvassing, a subcontractor for Musk’s PAC, made them sign confidentiality agreements and transported them to Michigan neighborhoods in the back of a U-Haul without seats or seat belts. After cabling published an initial story about their working conditions, the magazine reported that the subcontractor fired more than a dozen pollstersleaving some without full compensation or transportation home.

A knocker at the door told the magazine they didn’t know what they were signing up for. “I didn’t know anything about the job, or much of its description, other than going door to door and asking voters who they are voting for,” the unidentified worker said. “Then, after signing a confidentiality agreement, I found out that we are for the Republicans and for Trump.”

The worker also said they were unaware of the billionaire’s involvement until they “heard my supervisor and a few others mention Elon Musk.”

According cabling, The Trump campaign is relying on Musk and his PAC to lead its door-to-door efforts in the key state, but it appears the X owner’s operation is sloppy at best. Pollsters said they initially took Ubers to neighborhoods where they spoke to voters, but were then transported unsafely in the back of a U-Haul van without seats or seat belts. Organizers told surveyors to use a buggy app to record their progress, even though the app is Known for inaccurately pointing out fake door knocks.

“Our subcontractors should never have driven their canvassers around in a U-Haul van and those involved were immediately reprimanded,” said Tim Pollard of Blitz Canvassing. Cabling.

More than a dozen workers were fired after the magazine’s story about setbacks in the poll campaign broke. cabling reported, leaving some in Michigan without their full salaries or transportation home. According to emails obtained by the publication., The pollsters were promised compensation of $2,000 per week and a return plane ticket. They were also told they would earn $1.50 for each door they knocked on, text messages showed, and that rate would increase to $2 per door if they reached more than 1,000 doors per week, an unattainable figure.

“I have this weird feeling that I need to get out of there,” Tyra Muldrow, a 20-year-old Black woman and Florida resident, told the publication. Muldrow, who had to find her own way home, said she and other pollsters were told they had been fired because some of them had spoken to the media.

Muldrow said the group of pollsters he worked with consisted of black people from out of state. Muldrow provided videos for cabling which showed cramped quarters and disagreements between workers.

Muldrow found out that she and others were fired through a GroupMe chat from her cousin, Ebony Jones, who recruited her for the job. “Everyone is fired,” Jones wrote in the chat. According to Muldrow, Jones began asking workers to talk to the media.

At least four pollsters, including Muldrow, said they were not compensated for their work before they were fired. Muldrow showed cabling who initially received only $69 through Cash App “for Gotv,” a reference to spreading voting efforts.

“After the incident, some of the surveyors and contractors involved left the program, others decided to stay and all received their pay,” Pollard said. cabling, although the publication could not confirm the veracity of his statement.

Muldrow eventually received $2,000 in Cash App with the note: “For doors Michigan Gotv 742 paid in full.”

Shortly after that payment, Jones texted: “Please let Wired know you have been paid as soon as possible.”

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