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'Five-alarm fire': ex-GOP strategist rattled by who's calling out Musk's midterm spending
When Mitt Romney Blinks, the Captors Are Already in the RoomThe TellThe reporting here is simple enough: Elon Musk is reportedly pouring more than $100 million into midterm contests, including states like Maine, to help Republicans. What makes the episode politically revealing is not the money alone, but the fact that the alarm is coming from Mitt Romney, a man who spent years defending the very system that made this kind of influence normal.The Real PowerMusk is not being discussed as a donor in the ordinary sense. He is being described as a man with unimaginable wealth, sprawling government…
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