WashingtonMusk has spent $366 million this cycle on Republicans.
It tops his roughly $290 million in 2024 and likely makes him this year’s largest donor.
Of the $276 million since July, $158 million went to the Senate Leadership Fund and $76 million to his own America PAC.
“Republicans are hoping to buy these elections,” said Lauren French, spokesperson for Democrats’ Senate Majority PAC.
Polymarket traders put a Republican Senate with a Democratic House at 28% before the 3 November vote.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 100+ reports worldwide
- New York Post
- tallies the $366M total against the $276M since July, splitting it across the Senate Leadership Fund ($158M) and America PAC's own get-out-the-vote drive ($76M)
- Yahoo News
- attributes the figures to campaign finance records and sets the spending beside Investing.com stock-pick promos, not political framing
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- frames Musk as a 'trillionaire' and 'backer of far-right causes', and ties the spending to Trump's low popularity and cost-of-living worries
- TimesNow
- links the spending to Musk's earlier pledge to cut political giving after his rift with Trump, presenting the donation as a reversal
Sources: New York Post, Yahoo News, Al Jazeera Online, TimesNow