Billionaire tech guru Elon Musk, who owns social media platform X, donated a whopping $10 million to a super PAC that is connected with MAGA Republican Nate Morris, who is the favorite among candidates to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the 2026 midterm elections. This marks the biggest donation to a Senate candidate from Musk.
The contribution from the SpaceX CEO was made to Morris through the Fight for Kentucky super PAC. When President Donald Trump was running for his second term in 2024, Musk donated a total of $250 million to his campaign. Morris, 45, declared his intent to run for McConnell’s seat on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast last June. During the initial announcement about his campaign, Morris highlighted his business credentials along with his status as an outsider, saying he would “finally give this seat back to the people,” should he be elected.
Morris, who graduated from the George Washington University, built a waste management company called Rubicon Technologies and is also the CEO of Morris Industries, a holding company. The Kentucky Republican has not only been highly critical of McConnell, but has swung for the fences against Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) and the state’s attorney general, Daniel Cameron, also a Republican, and his competition for McConnell’s seat, as being “McConnell-ites.”
“This race is going to be very, very simple: it’s a referendum on Mitch McConnell’s record. It’s a referendum on Mitch McConnell’s legacy,” Morris went on to say. According to The Hill, the attacks on his competition for the seat have not gone unanswered. Blake Gober, Rep. Andy Barr’s campaign manager, lashed out at Morris, referring to him as a “DEI-promoting CEO,” who he says backed former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley over Trump during the 2024 Republican primary race.
“Nate Morris spending money made this a two-man race between Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron. Nate Morris spending more money will cement it that way,” Gober said, making an indirect reference to the large donation to Morris’ campaign from Musk. In November 2025, Musk sat down for dinner with Vice President JD Vance and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, where he revealed that he was planning to be a major player in the midterms by opening up his bank account.
Through the third quarter of 2025, Morris loaned his campaign committee, Morris for Senate, over $3 million, and received over a million in contributions. At a dinner in August 2025, Morris was ripping into McConnell and his legacy when, according to PBS, a party activist interrupted him and noted that McConnell wasn’t running again, challenging the candidate to explain his platform. He explained his hard-line stance on immigration and defended the president’s use of tariffs to help improve American manufacturing.
He also doubled down on his critique of McConnell, saying, “We’ve seen 40 years of doing it the same way,” Morris said. “And, yes, he’s not on the ballot, but his legacy is on the ballot. Do you want 40 more years of that? I don’t think you do.” The outcome of the GOP primary in Kentucky will be settled this spring.
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