Elon Musk is the sole funder of a super PAC formed in the final weeks of the election that aligns Donald Trump’s positions on abortion with those of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent millions of dollars on advertisements claiming that
The $20.5 million Musk has invested in his RBG PAC is just a fraction of his total political spending this year, including $238 million in a super PAC he launched. It included millions more to other Republican groups.
In total, the world’s richest man has poured more than $260 million into the 2024 election, making him likely the largest individual political donor in this election.
Musk’s involvement with the group America PAC is well known, with the tech CEO appearing at events in battleground states, posting about super PACs on X, and running very public sweepstakes. But Musk’s involvement with RBG PAC was more secretive. He funneled $20.5 million into the group on Oct. 24, but the amount was not disclosed until the group filed its campaign finance report with the Federal Election Commission late Thursday. Because of the timing of the donations, Musk’s support did not have to be disclosed until after the election, and neither he nor the group publicly touted his support.
RBG PAC spent almost all of its money on advertising. The ad claimed that Ms. Ginsburg, a longtime liberal judge and passionate women’s rights advocate who died in 2020, was “of one mind” with Mr. Trump on the issue of abortion. The website featured a photo of Trump and Ginsburg with the caption, “Great minds think alike.”
Although the justices largely avoid speaking publicly about the president’s policies, Ms. Ginsburg’s legacy in 2020 was not to replace Mr. Trump on the court, her granddaughter said. Trump replaced her with Amy Coney Barrett just before the 2020 election. Barrett was part of the judicial majority that voted to overturn. Roe vs. Wade 2 years later.
RBG PAC’s ads surged this election year after Democrats spent months and years attacking Trump on the abortion issue, which was overturned by a court led by a Trump-appointed judge. took place in the last few weeks. eggleading more than a dozen states to ban the procedure.
Musk, who is poised to advise Trump under the banner of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has become a major political player this year, supporting Trump and sitting on the campaign trail. His spending was primarily directed toward the presidential race, but he also dropped millions of dollars into down-ballot elections.
His America PAC raised $252 million over the cycle. The late spending push included nearly $41 million related to petitions distributed by the group, in which Mr. Musk promised $1 million in gifts to certain signatories and encouraged voters to sign, among other things. He promised the person a small check. The group also spent tens of millions of dollars on presidential campaigns and mailers, and millions of dollars in more than a dozen House races.
In late October, Musk also donated $3 million to a super PAC associated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and $924,600 to the Trump 47 Committee, his first direct contributions to a Trump operation. It will be. The joint fundraising committee sends money to the Trump campaign, as well as the Republican National Committee and other Republican groups.
So far this year, Musk has donated $1 million to the Republican-linked super PAC Early Vote Action and hundreds of thousands of dollars to joint fundraising committees affiliated with members of Congress. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.).
