MUSK TESTS THE ROLE OF MONEY IN U.S. POLITICS WITH MULTIMILLIONDOLLAR EFFORT TO BACK TRUMP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Next week’s presidential election isn’t just a referendum on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. It’s also a measure of the influence that the world’s richest man wields over American democracy. Elon Musk has spent at least $119 million mobilizing Trump’s supporters to back the Republican nominee. His social media platform is becoming a firehose of pro-Trump propaganda.