That spending may not have resulted in the intended outcome, but its influence was very real. As a person living in Texas getting not quite a dozen texts and postal mailers every single day I absolutely felt the influence. If it wasn't for this constant reminder continually reinforcing the failures and non-issues from a single party I don't think I would have felt as strongly about voting as I did.

You have to understand Texas received almost as political spending as the rest of the country combined. The result is that Texas flipped in a historically significant manner. Every single state-wide race was won by the Democrats and the Democrats did not win in every county, but they did have positive influence in every single one of the state's 254 counties. None of the polls predicted anything close to this.

Tarrant county was the largest Republican county in the country, and that is gone. Democrats won every campaign in the county except for one US congressional seat.

It is also important to note that Texas Republicans received the same number of votes as they did in 2024, but the total vote was something like 1.5-2 million votes higher than 2024 with all that increase going to the Democrats. Yes, Texas is growing its population super fast, but that vote increase is more than the population increase.

4th gen Texan. My grandfather rolls in his grave. Louisiana and Florida still red, may just sell out and go to greener pastures..

"Of the 43 candidates for the House of Representatives supported by the businessman, only three won, while 33 lost their races. "

Discussions yesterday:

BBC Elon Musk's millions fail to deliver Texas for the Republicans in fierce midterm (52 points, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369201

Wired Voters Set $400M of Elon Musk's Money on Fire (18 points, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50368522

Nobody knows how much they would have lose even more without that half billion.

also deleting half a billion of his tweets too