Elon Musk Jumps Into the Race to Exchange Mitch McConnell

Elon Musk and his limitless checking account are getting again into politics.

The multibillionaire is spending $10 million to again pro-Trump businessman Nate Morris within the Kentucky Republican primaries to fill retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell’s seat, based on an Axios report. The donation is reportedly Musk’s greatest single contribution ever to a Senate race.

Morris is an “anti-establishment” Republican who shares Musk’s frustrations with McConnell. He’s working on an anti-immigration platform and has already been endorsed by high MAGA figures like Steve Bannon and the late Charlie Kirk. He’s additionally reportedly a great buddy of the vp. Trump himself hasn’t but weighed in with an endorsement.

As soon as a Democrat, Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election in assist of Republicans, most notably President Donald Trump. The election noticed a Republican sweep because the GOP secured the trifecta of the Home, Senate, and White Home whereas having fun with the fruits of a conservative Supreme Court docket. Following Trump’s inauguration, Musk had a big presence in Trump’s administration, accompanying the President in some public appearances and main the now-defunct DOGE.

It didn’t take lengthy for Musk to reap what he sowed. It turned out that individuals hated Musk, much more so than they did Trump, based on public polling within the spring of final yr. Protesters across the U.S. and overseas organized motion in Tesla dealerships as the corporate noticed its biggest sales decline in historical past.

Then in April, Musk was handed a significant political defeat. In an off-year race, Wisconsin voters turned out in file numbers to vote towards the candidate for whom Musk had spent $20 million to purchase a seat in workplace.

“He’s completed, finished, gone. He polls horrible. Individuals hate him,” an nameless GOP operative advised Politico final Could.  “He’d go to Wisconsin pondering he should buy individuals’s votes, put on the cheese hat, act like a 9-year-old. … It doesn’t work. It’s offensive to individuals.”

And it did appear to be he was finished and gone for some time, particularly after Musk left the political highlight following a very public fallout together with his former best friend, Trump.

However late final yr, he returned to Trump’s periphery. He will be seen flaunting his personal dinners with Trump, signing AI offers with the Pentagon, reaffirming his assist for Republican super PACs, and actively partaking in foreign affairs.

Now it appears he’s already making ready to shell out large to guard Trump’s energy within the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. Musk has advised Republicans that he plans to offer extra, Axios reported. Whether or not Musk will put the cheese hat again on and hit the marketing campaign path himself stays to be seen.