Elon Musk's Summer Money Went Mostly to One Candidate

New campaign filings reported by the BBC show the world's richest person spent this summer again trying to help Republicans win office, with most of that effort aimed at a single candidate. The shape of the spending is more interesting than the total: a donor with enough money to fund races across the country concentrated nearly all of it in one contest. That is a narrow bet rather than a broad one, and it suggests the leverage Musk saw this summer lay in a particular seat and a particular candidate rather than in the party's fortunes generally.