Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

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Elon Musk put roughly $290 million into the 2024 cycle and has already topped $400 million so far in the 2025-26 midterms, for a two-year total over $700 million. George Soros’s tracked federal political giving over more than three decades sits in the hundreds of millions. One recent tally put his lifetime federal total around $536 million before this cycle. Soros and his linked groups have given another $102 million this cycle. Musk’s pace in two years has already passed those longer-term figures for direct election spending. Exact lifetime numbers for Soros are fuzzy because of his foundations, but the recent comparison holds.

Bloomberg — Oct 23: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-23/musk-giving-tops-445-million-in-midterm-election-push-for-gop
CNN — Oct 26: https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/26/politics/elon-musk-campaign-spending
Erfan Media analysis — Oct 26: https://news.erfanmedia.co/p/breaking-elon-musk-has-outspent-george
OpenSecrets / prior reporting on Soros cycles (2022 peak ~$128-179M)

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