{"id":1043077,"date":"2026-10-14T09:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043077"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:05:13","slug":"elon-musk-spent-276-million-to-boost-republicans-in-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/elon-musk-spent-276-million-to-boost-republicans-in-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk spent $276 million to boost Republicans in midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: Tech billionaire Elon Musk, the world&#8217;s richest man, has contributed $276 million to organizations boosting the campaigns of right-wing American candidates ahead of upcoming midterm elections, US media reported Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The sum, all contributed since July, positions Musk as the largest single donor for the November 3 elections, according to the New York Times. He has spent a total of $366 million this election cycle. <\/p>\n<p>The largest funding recipient was the Republican&#8217;s Senate Leadership Fund, receiving $158 million, aimed at maintaining the party&#8217;s control of the upper house of Congress despite a slim margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: Tech billionaire Elon Musk, the world&#8217;s richest man, has contributed $276 million to organizations boosting the campaigns of right-wing American candidates ahead of upcoming midterm elections, US media reported Monday. The sum, all contributed since July, positions Musk as the largest single donor for the November 3 elections, according to the New York Times. He has spent a total of $366 million this election cycle. The largest funding recipient was the Republican&#8217;s Senate Leadership Fund, receiving $158 million, aimed at maintaining the party&#8217;s control of the upper house of Congress despite a slim margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043079,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043077\/revisions\/1043079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}