Tech billionaire and Republican patron Elon Musk took to social media early Wednesday morning to joke that his favored candidates in this week’s midterm elections had failed.
“Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time,” he wrote with a shrugging emoji.
The X owner’s joke came after he spent more than $445 million to back Republican candidates and conservative super PACs in the midterms.
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His massive spending overwhelmingly focused on Texas, where Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton faced Democrat James Talarico
in a tight race. Mr. Musk also heavily backed incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s reelection campaign.
Both men lost, with Mr. Talarico becoming the first Democrat to win a Senate campaign in Texas since 1988 and Gina Hinojosa becoming the state’s first Democratic governor in 35 years.
Democrats won elections across the board on Tuesday night, eventually flipping both the House and the Senate in a firm rebuke of President Trump’s policies on immigration, tariffs and the war with Iran.
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