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The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-10-30 · 71 min · 11,943 words

What’s Driving Elon Musk?

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Republicans. Keep. The Senate.

If they perform better in the house than people expect, a lot of it's gonna come down to one man, and that man is not Donald Trump. Elon Musk. At this point, Musk has given around four hundred and fifty million dollars. to the Republican campaign effort. That makes him the single largest donor in any election cycle.

Ever. It is a quarter of all campaign donations Republicans have received. And yet The size of this I think what it throws into relief.

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