Elon Musk has authorised his super political action committee (PAC) to spend up to $120M (£90M) turning out Republican voters before the 3 November midterm elections. The commitment marks a year of open hostility with President Donald Trump. It restarts the operation that made Musk the largest individual donor in a single United States election cycle.
The figure comes from two people who have been briefed on the plan, and what it buys is less obvious than the number suggests. The committee behind it, America PAC, closed its last set of accounts with $326,017 (£244,000) in hand, and the drive it ran last year has since landed in the hands of a Wisconsin prosecutor.
