Musk's $445M Fails as Democrats Take Texas

Musk's political spending came to about $445 million, per the Daily Mail, with roughly half in Texas backing Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott. Both lost to Democratic challengers, and James Talarico won that Senate seat, the first Democratic Senate win there since 1988, says the BBC. Ohio rule: the rich guy who buys the ads still has to make payroll. The Daily Mail has Tesla down nearly six percent Wednesday and SpaceX more than five. A proposed Tesla-SpaceX merger valued around $3.5 trillion still needs state and federal approval, more paperwork than my county wants for a dumpster permit. Musk's post-mortem: 'Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time.' Nobody in Washington budgeted for lasers.

“Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time,”Elon Musk, via Daily Mail