Elon Musk cost GOP their Senate majority with one 'dumb' money move: economist

Elon Musk could have kept the Senate in Republican hands for far less than he spent losing a single race, according to economist Justin Wolfers. “Musk spent $200 million+ trying to win one Senate seat in Texas,” Wolfers wrote on X on Saturday, alongside a video breaking down the numbers. “Spread across the close races instead, roughly $130 million might have kept the whole Senate Republican.” In…

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