Elon Musk Just Dumped Another $76 Million Into the Midterms
Elon Musk Just Dumped Another $76 Million Into the Midterms
Elon Musk gave his personal political committee, America PAC, more than $76 million in the first two weeks of October to boost Republicans in the final stretch of the midterms, according to a pre-election report the PAC filed Thursday evening with the Federal Election Commission.
根据美国政治行动委员会（America PAC）周四晚间向联邦选举委员会提交的选前报告，埃隆·马斯克在10月的前两周向其个人政治委员会投入了超过7600万美元，旨在中期选举的最后冲刺阶段为共和党提供支持。
The group spent nearly $43 million in the first two weeks of October, and entered the campaign’s last leg holding nearly $47 million in cash.
该组织在10月的前两周花费了近4300万美元，并在进入竞选最后阶段时持有近4700万美元的现金。
The Texas Senate race dominated the new spending. It drew $15.2 million, double what the PAC spent there all summer. That spending included $12.4 million to attack Democratic candidate James Talarico and $2.8 million to promote Republican Ken Paxton.
得克萨斯州的参议院竞选占据了这笔新支出的大头。该选区获得了1520万美元的投入，是该委员会整个夏天在那里支出总额的两倍。这笔支出包括1240万美元用于攻击民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科（James Talarico），以及280万美元用于宣传共和党人肯·帕克斯顿（Ken Paxton）。
Daily filings since then show $9.1 million more against Talarico, bringing the PAC’s spending against him this cycle to nearly $28 million, about 40 percent of everything it has spent supporting or opposing candidates. The PAC also shifted toward online ads, spending $11.4 million on digital ads in the same two weeks, which is close to what it spent on mail and texting combined.
此后的每日备案显示，针对塔拉里科的支出又增加了910万美元，使得该委员会本周期内针对他的支出总额接近2800万美元，约占其支持或反对候选人总支出的40%。该委员会还将重心转向了在线广告，在同一两周内花费了1140万美元用于数字广告，这几乎相当于其在邮件和短信宣传上的支出总和。
All told, Musk has given more than $445 million to Republican political groups this election cycle, according to WIRED’s analysis of FEC filings, making him the biggest known individual donor in the midterms. More than $165 million of that has gone to America PAC since July alone.
根据《连线》（WIRED）对联邦选举委员会备案的分析，马斯克在本届选举周期内已向共和党政治团体捐赠了超过4.45亿美元，使他成为中期选举中已知的最大个人捐赠者。仅自7月以来，其中超过1.65亿美元就流向了美国政治行动委员会。
America PAC declined to comment.
美国政治行动委员会拒绝置评。
Musk—who has several companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, based in Texas—has also been posting online about the race. On Wednesday, Musk posted on X that “there is something deeply wrong with Talarico,” then called him “a creep” and claimed, without evidence, that he “would vote to take away your kids and transition them.” Earlier this month, Musk amplified a false claim that Talarico had been treated at a mental health facility. Talarico shot back the same day: “There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal US Senator.”
马斯克在得克萨斯州拥有包括特斯拉和SpaceX在内的多家公司，他也在网上发布了关于这场竞选的内容。周三，马斯克在X上发帖称“塔拉里科有问题”，随后称他为“怪胎”，并声称（未提供证据）他“会投票夺走你的孩子并让他们进行性别转换”。本月早些时候，马斯克还放大了一则关于塔拉里科曾在心理健康机构接受治疗的虚假指控。塔拉里科当天回击道：“一个允许亿万富翁购买属于他个人的美国参议员的政治体制，本身就存在严重的问题。”
The Texas race remains a toss-up. An Emerson College poll of 1,000 likely Texas voters, conducted October 17 to 19, found Talarico at 48 percent and Paxton at 46 percent, within the poll’s 3-point margin of error.
得克萨斯州的选情依然胶着。爱默生学院于10月17日至19日对1000名得州潜在选民进行的民意调查显示，塔拉里科的支持率为48%，帕克斯顿为46%，均在民调3个百分点的误差范围内。
The stakes for Musk reach well beyond Texas. If Democrats win the House, the lawmakers in line to lead its committees have signaled they will investigate his role in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his companies’ federal contracts, and what Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, called an “astounding” number of conflicts of interest. Unified Democratic control of Congress would pose even more problems for him.
对马斯克而言，利害关系远不止于得克萨斯州。如果民主党赢得众议院，有望领导相关委员会的议员们已表示，他们将调查他在政府效率部（DOGE）的角色、其公司的联邦合同，以及加州民主党人佐伊·洛夫格伦（Zoe Lofgren）所称的“惊人”数量的利益冲突。民主党对国会的统一控制将给他带来更多麻烦。
Silicon Valley Democrats added another target on Friday: restrictions on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite service in Ukraine. In a letter to the White House demanding an investigation, Representatives Sam Liccardo, Jimmy Panetta, and Ro Khanna vowed that the next Congress “will closely scrutinize federal funding awarded to Mr. Musk’s businesses.”
硅谷的民主党人在周五又增加了一个目标：对SpaceX在乌克兰的“星盾”（Starshield）卫星服务进行限制。在致白宫要求调查的一封信中，众议员萨姆·利卡多（Sam Liccardo）、吉米·帕内塔（Jimmy Panetta）和罗·康纳（Ro Khanna）誓言，下一届国会“将密切审查授予马斯克旗下企业的联邦资金”。