The world’s richest man threw hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain and lost every major race that mattered

Elon Musk tried to buy an election. Several elections, in fact. All told, the world’s richest man pumped around $474 million into Super PACs working on behalf of Republican candidates around the country in the 2026 election cycle, most of it focused on Texas. But on Tuesday night, in that state and basically every other battleground, he lost — and he lost big.

Musk’s plan for the midterms was simple: Funnel massive amounts of cash into super PACs that could overwhelm elections with relentless ad spending, sending voters a constant deluge of negative information about Democrats like James Talarico in Texas and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan in a blatant attempt to exert all the power and influence money could buy into the democratic process. On Tuesday night, it failed.

As of this morning, current voting totals have Talarico up by 13 points.…