Elon Musk has quietly poured money into a large canvassing effort aimed at helping Republican candidates in this year’s midterm elections, according to federal filings released Thursday night. WIRED has built a live tracker that updates daily with these filings to gauge the billionaire’s influence on the November vote.
The America PAC, which aligns with Musk, reported spending $76.7 million in the third quarter of 2026. Of that total, $35.8 million was allocated to a field operation designed to boost turnout among former President Donald Trump’s core supporters across all seven Senate battleground states and several House contests. By comparison, the same super PAC had spent roughly $45 million on a comparable field operation at the same stage of the 2024 cycle, when it handled most of the door‑to‑door outreach for Trump’s presidential campaign.
In effect, Musk has built a field operation on the scale of a presidential campaign for this midterm cycle, creating what appears to be a shadow version of the Republican National Committee. With three weeks left before Election Day, the total contributions are expected to climb even higher.
Canvassing represents the PAC’s biggest expense, outpacing the $23.7 million it has spent on digital advertising that mainly attacks Democrats, as well as campaign literature and phone‑banking efforts. In addition to the field work, Musk contributed $158 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, the primary super PAC supporting GOP Senate candidates. A similar amount was directed to a newly registered Texas PAC, created in August 2026, which backs embattled Republican Texas attorney general Ken Paxton.
Musk’s focus on the Texas Senate race reflects his personal and business ties to the state; he lives near Austin and both SpaceX and Tesla have major operations there. He accounted for almost 60 percent of the $273 million that the Senate Leadership Fund raised for the Texas PAC.
The massive war chest Musk has deployed across all seven contested Senate seats, and to a lesser extent in several competitive House races, makes him the largest identified donor in the midterms on both sides of the aisle.
Since its launch, America PAC has relied mainly on outside firms to carry out paid canvassing, hiring workers to knock on doors of likely Trump or Republican voters to encourage registration and early voting. The super PAC has continued to use many of the same contractors it employed in 2024. The largest canvassing contract went to Blitz Canvassing, a subsidiary of the political‑affairs firm GP3 Partners, which helped set up America PAC. Other vendors listed in the filings include Patriot Grassroots LLC, The Synapse Group, In Field Strategies, Echo Canyon Group, Threshold Strategies and GEG Strategies LLC; all but the last two also worked for the PAC in 2024.
As the campaign enters its final stretch, America PAC retains more than $12 million in unspent funds, and Musk, the world’s richest person, could add more if needed. Since July, the PAC has spent money in 40 races across 17 states. The Texas Senate contest received the largest share, with $15.3 million directed against Democrat James Talarico and $3.5 million used to support Paxton. Additional expenditures include roughly $5.3 million targeting Democrat Sherrod Brown in Ohio’s Senate race against Republican Jon Husted, and $3.5 million aimed at Democrat Abdul El‑Sayed in Michigan’s Senate contest against Republican Mike Rogers.