{"id":1048092,"date":"2026-11-09T08:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048092"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:47:27","slug":"how-elon-musk-frittered-away-nearly-500-million-on-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/how-elon-musk-frittered-away-nearly-500-million-on-the-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"How Elon Musk frittered away nearly $500 million on the midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s richest person had face-planted \u2014 and was now trying to turn back time. <\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk spent nearly $500 million during the midterm cycle, the most in any election period for a donor who wasn\u2019t a candidate himself. <\/p>\n<p>He hoped to defend Republican control of Congress and rescue Ken Paxton, the party\u2019s embattled nominee for Senate in Texas. Instead, Democrats won shockingly large House and Senate majorities, and Paxton was trounced by James Talarico, who seemed to bother Musk like no other Democratic candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s richest person had face-planted \u2014 and was now trying to turn back time. Elon Musk spent nearly $500 million during the midterm cycle, the most in any election period for a donor who wasn\u2019t a candidate himself. He hoped to defend Republican control of Congress and rescue Ken Paxton, the party\u2019s embattled nominee for Senate in Texas. Instead, Democrats won shockingly large House and Senate majorities, and Paxton was trounced by James Talarico, who seemed to bother Musk like no other Democratic candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048092","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048102,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048092\/revisions\/1048102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}