Overview
- A campaign finance filing shows Elon Musk donated $5 million in May to V-PAC, the super PAC supporting Vivek Ramaswamy, and Musk posted a public endorsement on X.
- That contribution brings Musk’s reported election-cycle spending to at least $90 million, reinforcing his role as one of the largest outside donors this cycle.
- Ramaswamy has also injected about $25 million of his own money into the race and will face Democrat Amy Acton in November, a matchup Cook recently moved to toss-up.
- Musk and Ramaswamy were publicly linked to the White House Department of Government Efficiency and later reported to have clashed, but both have since downplayed lasting personal conflict.
- The newly disclosed gift highlights how late campaign finance filings can shift public view of donor influence and could drive more outside ad buys and organizing in a now-competitive Ohio contest.