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Musk quietly emerges as the largest midterm donor to rescue the Republican Party

Musk quietly emerges as the largest midterm donor to rescue the Republican Party

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October 12th, 2026

Musk quietly emerges as the largest midterm donor to rescue the Republican Party

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Elon Muskโ€”the world's sole trillionaireโ€”has quietly emerged as the foremost donor in this year's midterm elections, channeling in excess of $276 million since July in a bid to safeguard the Republican majority in Congress.

์ผ๋ก  ๋จธ์Šคํฌโ€”์„ธ๊ณ„ ์œ ์ผ์˜ ์กฐ๋งŒ์žฅ์žโ€”๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋…„ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ์€๋ฐ€ํžˆ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ž๋กœ ๋ถ€์ƒํ•˜์—ฌ, 7์›” ์ด๋ž˜ 2์–ต 7600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ํˆฌ์ž…ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์˜ํšŒ ๋‚ด ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ๋‹ค์ˆ˜๋‹น ์ง€์œ„๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

This figure was first reported by The New York Times ahead of this week's federal campaign finance filing deadline, and Andrew Romeo, a spokesman for Musk's super PAC, confirmed it.

์ด ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ๋‰ด์š•ํƒ€์ž„์Šค๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ์ฃผ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์ž๊ธˆ ์‹ ๊ณ  ๋งˆ๊ฐ์„ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ ๋ณด๋„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋จธ์Šคํฌ์˜ ์Šˆํผ PAC ๋Œ€๋ณ€์ธ ์•ค๋“œ๋ฃจ ๋กœ๋ฏธ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

According to the Times report, the funds include $158 million given to the Senate Leadership Fund, a prominent super PAC that supports Republican Senate candidates, which constitutes one of the largest political donations ever recorded in American history.

ํƒ€์ž„์Šค์˜ ๋ณด๋„์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด, ํ•ด๋‹น ์ž๊ธˆ์—๋Š” ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์ƒ์› ํ›„๋ณด๋“ค์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ์Šˆํผ PAC์ธ ์ƒ์› ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ํŽ€๋“œ์— ์ œ๊ณต๋œ 1์–ต 5800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ •์น˜ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๊ธˆ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ํ•˜๋‚˜์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•œ๋‹ค.

A separate $76 million was attributed to America PAC, Musk's super PAC, which has rebuilt a get-out-the-vote operation on the same scale as the one it mobilized to support Donald Trump's election in 2024.

๋ณ„๋„์˜ 7,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋Š” ๋จธ์Šคํฌ์˜ ์Šˆํผ PAC์ธ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด PAC์— ๊ท€์†๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ๋‹จ์ฒด๋Š” 2024๋…„ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ๋‹น์„ ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋™์›ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ํˆฌํ‘œ ๋…๋ ค ์ž‘์ „์„ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Musk further contributed $10 million to the Lone Star Liberty PAC, an organization backing Ken Paxton, the Republican candidate for the Texas Senate, and that race is one Musk is targeting as a central focus.

๋จธ์Šคํฌ๋Š” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์ฃผ ์ƒ์› ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ํ›„๋ณด์ธ ์ผ„ ํŒฉ์Šคํ„ด์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ฒด ๋ก  ์Šคํƒ€ ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ„ํ‹ฐ PAC์— 1,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ถœ์—ฐํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•ด๋‹น ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋Š” ๋จธ์Šคํฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต๋žตํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด๋‹ค.

This can be described as a dramatic reversal from last May, when Musk declared that he would scale back his political spending going forward.

์ด๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ 5์›” ๋จธ์Šคํฌ๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ •์น˜ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์ถ•์†Œํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฒœ๋ช…ํ•œ ์ด๋ž˜ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ๋ฐ˜์ „์ด๋ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

At the time, he stated, "I think I've done enough."

๋‹น์‹œ ๊ทธ๋Š” "์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Despite the vast sums of money that have been poured in, Musk has, on the whole, maintained a conspicuously low profile โ€” even compared with 2024, when he appeared at rallies at Trump's side, or with the period early in the president's second term when he headed the Department of Government Efficiency.

๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž๊ธˆ์ด ํˆฌ์ž…๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋จธ์Šคํฌ๋Š” 2024๋…„ ๋‹น์‹œ์™€ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ ์ง‘ํšŒ์—์„œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๊ณ์— ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ž„๊ธฐ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜ ์ •๋ถ€ํšจ์œจ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ์—ˆ๋˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ๋น„ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ฎ์€ ํ”„๋กœํ•„์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

Notwithstanding the discord that arose with Trump during his departure from a senior government post, the two men subsequently reconciled.

์ •๋ถ€ ์š”์ง์—์„œ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์™€ ๋ถˆํ™”๋ฅผ ๋นš์—ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์ดํ›„ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

Last week, Trump conferred the National Medal of Science upon Musk.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ๋จธ์Šคํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๊ณผํ•™ ๋ฉ”๋‹ฌ์„ ์ˆ˜์—ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Musk's net worth has fluctuated around the trillion-dollar threshold in tandem with this year's stock price swings, but according to a report by Forbes, it once again surpassed the trillion-dollar mark last week.

๋จธ์Šคํฌ์˜ ์ˆœ์ž์‚ฐ์€ ๊ธˆ๋…„๋„ ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ๋ฝ์„ธ์— ์—ฐ๋™ํ•˜์—ฌ 1์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ผ๋Š” ์ž„๊ณ„์ ์„ ๋“ฑ๋ฝํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ํฌ๋ธŒ์Šค์ง€์˜ ๋ณด๋„์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ์— ์žฌ์ฐจ 1์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

The Republican Party has secured a formidable financial advantage over the Democratic Party.

๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์€ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž๊ธˆ์ƒ์˜ ์šฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Amid voters' deep-seated discontent with the president's governance, persistent inflation, and an unpopular war in Iran, this constitutes a hope seldom afforded to a party bracing for a crushing defeat.

์ด๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๊ตญ์ • ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์˜ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ ๊นŠ์€ ๋ถˆ๋งŒ, ๋งŒ์„ฑ์ ์ธ ๊ณ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ ์†์—์„œ ์ฐธํŒจ๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์ •๋‹น์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ข€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด๊ธฐ ํž˜๋“  ํฌ๋ง์ด๋‹ค.

The Republican Party is deploying those funds to saturate the broadcast media in the final stretch of the campaign.

๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๋ง‰๋ฐ”์ง€์— ๋ฐฉ์†ก ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋„๋ฐฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Romeo told the Times, "Thanks to this formidable infusion of investment, the Republican organization has been empowered to disseminate its message, thereby securing for the party an opportunity to wage a battle that could defy history."

๋กœ๋ฏธ์˜ค๋Š” ํƒ€์ž„์Šค์— "์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์กฐ์ง์ด ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋„์ „ํ•  ์‹ธ์›€์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In response to this news, the Democratic Party accused the Republican Party of attempting to conceal its shortcomings by mobilizing vast sums of cash.

๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น์€ ์ด ์†Œ์‹๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์ด ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ์„ ๋™์›ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฐ์ ์„ ์€ํํ•˜๋ ค ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋น„๋‚œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Lauren French, a spokesperson for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee PAC, declared, "Republicans are trying to buy this election, pouring tens of millions of dollars into it in order to evade the reality of an unpopular candidate, an unpopular president, and an unpopular economy."

๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ์ƒ์› ๋‹ค์ˆ˜๋‹น PAC ๋Œ€๋ณ€์ธ ๋กœ๋ Œ ํ”„๋ Œ์น˜๋Š” "๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์€ ์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธˆ์ „์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋ ค ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ธ๊ธฐ ์—†๋Š” ํ›„๋ณด์™€ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์—†๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ธ๊ธฐ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ผ๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์„ ํšŒํ”ผํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ์ˆ˜์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์— ์Ÿ์•„๋ถ“๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

October 12th, 2026

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