{"id":16,"date":"2026-08-12T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/?p=16"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:22:24","slug":"nyt-musk-plans-to-spend-at-least-100-million-to-help-republicans-in-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/uncategorized\/nyt-musk-plans-to-spend-at-least-100-million-to-help-republicans-in-the-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Musk Plans to Spend at Least $100 Million to Help Republicans in the Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk, a year after voicing deep frustration with the Republican Party and threatening to start a third party, appears to be back in the fold and prepared to spend big in the midterms to help G.O.P. candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Musk, the world\u2019s richest person, has authorized his super PAC to spend $100 million to $120 million in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November, according to two people briefed on the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/30\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-midterms-republicans.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yahoo\/ Axios <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/exclusive-musk-plans-massive-push-230005221.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, a year after voicing deep frustration with the Republican Party and threatening to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/politicalInsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}