How Elon Musk Is Shaping the GOP Midterm Strategy

“For Republicans, Christmas came in July,” the New York Times reports.

“That’s when Elon Musk began funneling more than $276 million into the party’s efforts to save its majorities in Congress, my colleague Teddy Schleifer has learned.”

“It is a stonkingly large amount of money, and it includes, in sum, one of the biggest political donations in history: $158 million to Senate Republicans’ main super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund.”

“It means that when we talk about the Republicans’ considerable outside spending advantage over Democrats in this midterm, we are talking, in large part, about Musk’s personal contributions.”

“And it means that a mercurial figure who once backed off political spending is back in the game.”