{"id":1043078,"date":"2026-10-14T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043078"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:05:53","slug":"elon-musks-366-million-political-spending-surge-why-hes-backing-republicans-in-2026-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/elon-musks-366-million-political-spending-surge-why-hes-backing-republicans-in-2026-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s $366 million political spending surge: Why he&#8217;s backing Republicans in 2026 midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having at one time signalled his desire to cut down on his political spending, Elon Musk is now the largest individual contributor in the 2026 United States midterm election cycle, having contributed $366 million to political campaigns while Republicans struggle to keep their grip on Congress. Close to $276 million of the sum has been spent on Republican groups and PACs since July, according to a report by The New York Times and Reuters on October 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having at one time signalled his desire to cut down on his political spending, Elon Musk is now the largest individual contributor in the 2026 United States midterm election cycle, having contributed $366 million to political campaigns while Republicans struggle to keep their grip on Congress. Close to $276 million of the sum has been spent on Republican groups and PACs since July, according to a report by The New York Times and Reuters on October 12.<\/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-1043078","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\/1043078","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=1043078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043081,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043078\/revisions\/1043081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}