Elon Musk has donated over $276 million to Republican midterm efforts

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Elon Musk has handed retired astatine slightest $276 cardinal to Republican groups since July, The New York Times reports, making him some the party's apical known donor and the biggest established midterm donor. $158 cardinal of that wealth - 1 of the largest governmental donations successful American past - has been funneled into the Senate Leadership Fund, the main ace PAC that aims to unafraid and support a Republican Senate majority. Among others, it's warring to clasp the party's Senate spot successful Texas, which serves arsenic a large hub for Musk's concern empire.

He's besides donated implicit $76 cardinal to America PAC, a ace PAC Musk founded successful 2024 that canvasses for …

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