ICYMI: Elon Musk’s Super PAC Just Spent Over $91k to Try and Buy New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate Seat for John Sununu

ICYMI: Elon Musk's Super PAC Just Spent Over $91k to Try and Buy New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate Seat for John Sununu

In Case You Missed It, recent reporting from CNBC shows Elon Musk’s Super PAC just disclosed spending over $91,000 to try and buy New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate seat for Donald Trump-endorsed U.S. Senate candidate John Sununu as he runs to be a rubber stamp for Trump’s agenda. 

These disbursements follow earlier spending from Musk’s Super PAC on digital ads that “target[ed] specific lists” of New Hampshire voters and “urge[d] viewers to register to vote.” Sununu showed support for Musk’s now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency in March, saying, “it needed to be done.”

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CNBC: Elon Musk starts spending his midterm election millions, revealing his key Senate targets

• Elon Musk’s super PAC is putting its first midterm money behind some of the GOP’s most important election battlegrounds, spending more than $800,000 across seven Senate races and a handful of competitive House districts, according to a new Federal Election Commission disclosure.
• The spending by America PAC offers the clearest look yet at where the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is directing his political operation, after the billionaire who previously supported Democrats reportedly authorized the group to spend as much as $120 million on an effort to help elect Republicans this November.
• [...] The PAC disclosed another $91,459 in New Hampshire, $54,600 in Iowa, $25,605 in Michigan and $17,235 in Alaska.
• The expenditures were made between Aug. 18 and Aug. 31, with the disclosure also listing two expenditures scheduled for Sept. 10. All were categorized as printing expenses, indicating the money was being used for mail advertising.
• [...] Musk spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates in 2024, including more than $239 million given to America PAC. 
• [...] The New York Times reported in July that Musk had authorized America PAC to spend up to $120 million on a field program aimed at electing Republicans this November.
• The latest expenditures are still just a fraction of that potential commitment.
• [...]