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Not even $200 million could help Elon Musk buy Texas
- Democrat James Talarico won a Senate seat in Texas, breaking a 38-year drought for his party in the Republican stronghold and delivering a stunning blow to Donald Trump.
- The race became one of the most expensive Senate contests in US history, with advertising spending topping $500m, according to estimates.
- GOP-aligned groups poured hundreds of millions of dollars into efforts to elect Ken Paxton, including substantial funding linked to multibillionaire Elon Musk, whom Talarico accused of trying to buy a Senate seat.
- Elon Musk’s nearly half a billion dollars in midterms spending was a flop…
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