Elon Musk’s nearly half a billion dollars in midterms spending was a flop

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Elon Musk set a record for election spending this year after pouring nearly half a billion dollars into backing Republicans in the US midterm elections. Democrats won every one of the five Senate races where Musk’s America Pac spent the most money backing Republican candidates. Altogether, Musk’s political spending this midterms flowed into at least eight Republican-aligned Super Pacs that targeted races across the country, with the largest donation of at least $216m going into his own America Pac.

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