Posted on 01/19/2026 10:32:18 AM PST by DFG
Elon Musk is investing heavily in keeping the Senate seat held by retiring Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell in the GOP camp, according to a new report.
Musk has donated a “stunning” $10 million to support Kentucky businessman Nate Morris, who is running in the May Republican primary, according to Axios.
The donation is unprecedented — the largest the tech billionaire has ever given to a Senate candidate.
Axios reported that Musk was all-in after meeting Morris, who shares a mutual friend in the person of Vice President J.D. Vance.
The report said Musk is pleased to back a candidate who views himself as as “anti-McConnell.”
Musk’s donation is being taken as a sign that he will spend freely to help Republicans hold their endangered congressional majority. In 2024, Musk donated $300 million to various Republican campaigns, according to Axios, with most of the money going to President Donald Trump’s election bid.
Although Musk and Trump were a team during Trump’s campaign and the early months of the Trump administration, the two men had a very public spat in mid-2025.
Vance, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich met with Musk in November in what appears to have resulted in a change in attitudes.
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If only there were more like Musk.
I’m presuming Elon talked this move over with the President beforehand. Since VP Vance is a good friend of Elon, it’s all the more likely that this donation and endorsement is no surprise at the White House.
Elon is thinking post-Trump
It sure would be nice if he back$ Whatley for Tillis’s seat.
Undoubtedly. He didn’t get where he is thinking short term.
“Axios reported that Musk was all-in after meeting Morris, who shares a mutual friend in the person of Vice President J.D. Vance.”
Nate Morris is a long-time establishment bundler and McConnell protege/acolyte:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4335737/posts
Nate Morris is a textbook “McConnell protégé.” And this is not an attack on him for that - if you were an aspiring Republican in Kentucky that’s where you went...and the only place to go for awhile - McConnell got the reversal of the Dem stranglehold in motion. Being a Republican was to be lost in the wilderness.
McConnell and Nate Morris have been on first name terms over two decades now. His ties to McConnell are why he became a political force in Kentucky and his connections and networking may have helped him in his private sector career as well.
Again - not attacking for that - but what I do find highly questionable is him now claiming he is the only candidate running that does not have ties to Mitch McConnell and is the “political outsider” in the race. If anything, he has the longest history of direct close ties to McConnell and the political establishment at large of any of the major candidates. That’s just disingenuous of him to claim otherwise. Also his claims of being “anti-woke” are a joke has he has long championed ESG, DEI, BLM, and the like as a work corporate CEO, and he also claims to be a “Trump champion” when he supported Nikki Haley in 2024 - his right to do so, but claiming to be the most “Trumpist” candidate is also disingenuous.
Here are some excerpts from an old article from 2004 - going back decades which further illustrate the point:
http://www.tpj.org/2004/08/lexington-herald-leader-kentucky.html
Morris has raised more than $50,000 from dozens of donors for President Bush’s re-election campaign.
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To succeed, Nate Morris eschews partisan stridency in favor of an ingratiating manner, a talent for cultivating his elders and a thickening Rolodex. Aside from his efforts for Bush, Morris has helped to elect Kentucky Republicans, including U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and two McConnell proteges, U.S. Rep. Anne Northup and Gov. Ernie Fletcher.
He hopes to run for office one day, and bundling is a fine way to raise his profile among the players. More immediately, Morris is a passionate advocate for what he calls “investing in your beliefs.” (how can you be any more of a political insider than this?)
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“You can really be effective in government even without holding office, by helping people with great ideas to get elected,” Morris said recently. Politicians are quick to praise him.
“Everybody knows Nate,” said McConnell, one of Morris’ mentors and a master fund-raiser in his own right. (McConnell has been a mentor of Morris’ from the start of his political rise...now he claims he’s the candidate who does not have ties to McConnell)
“Nate is the kind of kid you remember because he seems to be so sincere and so dedicated to the cause, he kind of stands out,” McConnell said. “It’s obvious that it’s an important part of his life.” (Again, note that this is over 20 years ago...his ties are strong and have a long history - first name basis)
Click to read the entire article - further discusses his long term ties to not just McConnell, but other prominent establishment politicians. Any claim he’s a “political outsider” and “not a McConnell boy” (his words) just simply is not true...he is and has been...for decades. It is how he got to where he is now. But now his entire branding in this primary campaign is his “outsider” credentials without any connections to McConnell.
Nate Morris also has a strong record as a supporter of DEI, ESG, “white privilege sensitivity training”, BLM, and other far left causes in more recent years:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4332039/posts
Nate Morris posted in support of DEI and ESG, things he’s since pledged to oppose.
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The deleted tweets included multiple posts promoting the concept of a circular economy, a movement defined by the Environmental Protection Agency as a model that “keeps materials and products in circulation for as long as possible” and “an important part of slowing climate change.” The concept, promoted by organizations like the World Economic Forum and the United Nations, frequently comes alongside government regulations and mandates.
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Previously deleted blog posts from Morris’ time as CEO of Rubicon, a large recycling company, have come under scrutiny for their promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG). For example, in one post from September 2020, Morris praised a new board member of Rubicon for helping the company remain “at the forefront of the ESG movement.”
In another deleted post from June 1, 2020, Morris wrote that he was “feeling profound sadness and anger at the tragic events of recent weeks” in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
“The protests we are seeing are a manifestation of the pain and anger that so many are feeling,” he wrote. “While it is important that we understand that pain and anger, it cannot bring back the lives that have been lost or undo the past injustices that have plagued our nation for generations. That pain and anger must fuel real, measurable, and decisive action to light a better path forward.”
Another post highlighted Morris’ decision to sign a DEI commitment, which included pledges “to have complex discussions about diversity and inclusion, to implement and expand upon unconscious bias education, and to share best and unsuccessful diversity and inclusion practices.”
Nate Morris is the *least* outsider candidate running. He owes everything he has to the political establishment and his decades of involvement and networking therein. I don’t necessarily fault him for that - what I do fault him for is the blatant dishonesty in now running as an “outsider” when he was working with and closely mentored by McConnell himself to get to where he is now.
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