Elon Musk spent nearly $500 million over two years to help Republicans. Here is the inside story of how his effort failed. nyti.ms/4j3e5eE
Elon Musk is pictured. Headline reads: "How Elon Musk's Nearly $500 Million Bet on the Midterms Flopped." Photo credit: Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times.

ALT Elon Musk is pictured. Headline reads: "How Elon Musk's Nearly $500 Million Bet on the Midterms Flopped." Photo credit: Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times.

Nov 7, 2026 · 1:00 AM UTC

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and yet, yall never talk about these guys....
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It didn’t flop. Your mad skills in journalism should have uncovered the extra 20 million votes that only went to Dems? Odd or fraud? Rigged it too big? Get back to work.
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now do George Soros, you insufferable assholes
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He is one of the richest men in the world, so I don’t think his plan is failing
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He’s still the richest man on the planet and could wipe his ass with the New York Times and flush it down the toilet.
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Cool story! Now do Soros.
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America’s voters cannot be bought and that is a good thing. Thank you Texas, you lead.
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The New Hamas Times with the”inside story” hilarious 😂
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@elonmusk Americans truly believe in one thing and that is always please ” Move Forward “. Therefore, Mr.Musk -What you did is all over. And the fact is that Democrats in both the House and & in the Senate, love you . Do you know why ? Because, You are a God Gifted person & an extra ordinary Talented person in the whole world. We all are very much proud of you. With ❤️
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It’s a cheating on grand scale never’ve seen before 🤬 Usually Dems delayed counting votes for weeks (LA mayor in June) to insert fraudulent votes, this time they counted in minutes (California announced at 8:01pm new Governor when polls closed at 8pm🤯😱) Texas: new 2.9M “new registered voters” my A$$ voted for Talafrico who said he loves trans kids WTF That’s a Blue Tsunami of fraud and we have to sit quietly to morn our country being highjacked 🤬 Bring military to audit ballots NOW Our Country just got highjacked Makes my blood boil
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Why don't you do a story on Soros?
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He spent it on America's future, and Republicans are the only party with a real plan for making a good one, unlike Dems which was busy destoying the country in realtime
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It’s a marathon not a sprint race. His effort is still going.
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Who cares?? Do you harp on how much Bloomberg or the Soros family and their associated PACs give Democrats?
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🤖 Made with AI
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So what 500 million to him is like 5 bucks to me.
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You guys say this like it’s some HUGE blunder. To someone with $1 trillion, $500 million is similar to about $44 to a household earning the median American income (which in 2025 was $87,460) your hatred for @elonmusk is jealously, pure and simple. Your publication’s love for socialism is ONLY because you think you’ll be in the 1% in the new world order. Guess what, journalists never are…they are pawns to win the revolution. They don’t get the spoils.
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Still worth it for him, you never spend you never know. No regrets. 💕
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My plan failed big time.
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Dems are the biggest hypocrites and liars. Brazen. The media should send the DNC a huge bill for free advertising.
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Democrats just use OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY to do THE SAME THING
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His effort may have failed but that $500 mil will probably earn him several billion in contracts etc., Remember he started 2024 as a centi-billionaire and after donating $100's of millions to Trump he's a trillionaire now
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When you realize you can’t simply throw money 💰 at the problem 😆😆😆
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But you said he bought elections make up your mind
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Please also mention how big tech companies, Meta, Alphabet, and others conspired w/ the DNC in 2020 to suppress information Thankfully, @elonmusk bought Twitter Please acknowledge the left leaning legacy media and how @AppleNews has 0 positive Republican articles in this cycle
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He got Trump elected, dummies.
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he did not help republicans for the fun of it... he knows that under democrat rule, the nation will fall hard and be overcome by enemies... look no further than open borders and the 500 million it costs to take care of all those illegals. Basically no rule of law under democraps.
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I never want to hear about money influencing peoples vote ever again.
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Democrats media is sending the message to corporate Americans that democrats will come after people who don't support their socialist agenda. You can't hate the left wing media @nytimes nearly enough
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SCREW HIM! 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
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Oh so you can't actually buy elections? Weird.
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Remember when Hillary spent 2 billion and Kamala spent more? 500m doesn't seem that bad lol
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