Senate Leadership Fund

If you only show up because you think we can win, then is that so noble? The people I respect are the people that show up no matter what.

Lone Star Liberty PAC, the main pro-Paxton PAC outside group, Raised $18 million in Q3, $10 million from Elon, $5 million from Senate Leadership Fund, $1 million from Maha Action PAC, and Preserve Texas $250,000 from Russell Gordy, who is a great guy.

Russell used to be my neighbor four doors over.

One of the nicest...

In a short amount of time.

And PBS reports that $158 million has been given to the Senate Leadership Fund.

$76 million went to America PAC, which I think is one of his super PACs.

And then $10 million to Lone Star Liberty PAC, which goes to Paxton.

It's Elon Musk.

Campaign finance filings released yesterday show Musk gave a total of $158 million in two separate payments to the Senate Leadership Fund.

The Texas Tribune reports that on September 9th, the first day of the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, Musk gave $75 million to the SLF.

The next day, that money was deposited into a new entity called Texas PAC.

So when you look at just 158 m- just [laughs]

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At $158 million in the Senate Leadership Fund, when you look at that Democratic counterpart, that is more from Elon Musk than all the donors on the Democratic side.

Yeah.

The filings released Thursday show Musk as the main donor behind a blizzard of campaign ads for the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate.

The filings show the world's richest man sent the money to the Senate Leadership Fund, which then turned around and cut a check of the same amount to a Texas PAC set up to support Paxton in his race against Democrat James Talarico.

Musk lives in Austin, and Paxton is the state attorney general who regulates the SpaceX and Tesla CEO's businesses in Texas.

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The filings, released Thursday, show Musk as the main donor behind a blizzard of campaign ads for the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate.

The filings show the world's richest man sent the money to the Senate Leadership Fund, which then turned around and cut a check of the same amount to a Texas PAC set up to support Paxton in his race against Democrat James Tallarico.

Musk lives in Austin, and Paxton is the state attorney general who regulates the SpaceX and Tesla CEOs' businesses in Texas.

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You know, I don't wanna get too overly hopeful about it, but doesn't it just feel like the momentum, especially in Texas, is on our side? The Texas Senate race is one of the most competitive races in the country and was expected to cost millions of dollars because an expensive state to run a campaign.

Uh, when Musk's team and the Senate Leadership Fund analyzed polling, they found Paxton's chances of winning dwindling, leading Musk to step in, Axios reporting.

Of course, that gives us all chills that, uh, Musk is interfering again in our election.

It's-- shouldn't even be legal.

This is incredible stuff, and where's the money coming from, Craig?

Well, that's a very good question, and if you dive down, the first name that comes up is called One Nation, and you may wonder, "Well, what the hell is that?" And if you dive further, who is a, a donor of it? It's, um, it's really called the Center- Senate Leadership Fund.

The Senate Leadership Fund and One Nation are functionally the same.

I mean, they're, there's, the, that they're two separate entities is, is just a fiction.

And the Senate Leadership Fund, uh, was run by, uh, Mitch McConnell's office and now by John Thune's.

It's run by the Senate Majority Leader, that is the Republicans, and, uh, still within that, uh, everything is hidden because it's a political action committee, and they are allowed, uh, they are classified as a social welfare organization, and, uh, that, uh, that designation, uh, includes groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, uh, the National Rifle Association, uh, and, uh, it's being used increasingly to disguise what is really, uh, just out-and-out right-wing propaganda.

Yeah.

Musk, who briefly led the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, taking the title for the biggest known donor in the elections, which are set for Tuesday, November third.

The money includes more than a hundred and fifty-eight million for the Senate Leadership Fund, another seventy-six million to the America PAC, and ten million to the Lone Star Liberty PAC.

The donations come just months after Musk said he was going to cut back on his future political spending.

The self-described engineer and technologist has amassed his wealth from multiple companies over the years.