Inside Elon Musk’s Massive Texas Rescue Mission

“Elon Musk’s team reached out to Republicans in late August to discuss a train wreck they all saw coming: Unless the GOP poured more money into Texas immediately, the state’s Senate race could be lost in a matter of weeks,” Axios reports.

“That chat set in motion a massive rescue operation for Republican Ken Paxton funded substantially by Musk, the party’s largest donor, who gave $158 million in September alone.”

”Musk’s rescue gave Paxton’s sleepy campaign new life and showed why the world’s richest person is the X factor in the push to prevent a midterm debacle for President Trump’s party.”

”It also helped Republicans avoid a death-spiral scenario: that propping up Paxton in Texas would force them to drain badly needed resources from other Senate battlegrounds.”