{"id":16575,"date":"2025-03-01T16:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16575"},"modified":"2025-03-01T16:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:47:24","slug":"elon-musk-looks-beyond-washington-toward-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16575","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk looks beyond Washington toward Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;A group with ties to Elon Musk is pouring more than $1 million into Wisconsin\u2019s upcoming Supreme Court race \u2014 a sign that even as Musk races to overhaul Washington, his influence extends beyond it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk has directly boosted the Republican-backed candidate in the Wisconsin race on his powerful X platform. And a Republican-aligned group, Building America\u2019s Future, is spending at least $1.5 million in the state, with ads set to start running later this week. Musk has donated to the group in the past, and it has backed some of President Donald Trump\u2019s controversial Cabinet picks.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/18\/elon-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-00204791\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/18\/elon-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-00204791<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A group with ties to Elon Musk is pouring more than $1 million into Wisconsin\u2019s upcoming Supreme Court race \u2014 a sign that even as Musk races to overhaul Washington, his influence extends beyond it.<br \/>\nMusk has directly boosted the Republican-backed candidate in the Wisconsin race on his powerful X platform. And a Republican-aligned group, Building America\u2019s Future, is spending at least $1.5 million in the state, with ads set to start running later this week. Musk has donated to the group in the past, and it has backed some of President Donald Trump\u2019s controversial Cabinet picks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/18\/elon-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-00204791<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,1598,1855,509,170,291],"class_list":["post-16575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-money-in-politics","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16576,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions\/16576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}