“Elon Musk has cemented his record as the largest individual political donor in modern American history. The world’s richest man poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress, recent election filings show,” the Washington Post reports.
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