Campaign Money

An incorrect assumption embedded in a lot of discussion of campaign finance issues is that, for example, if you support an increase in the minimum wage, then business interests will run ads about your position on that policy.

But that isn't actually what  happens.  Mininum wage increases, for example, are fairly popular, so that money is used to fund ads that suggest you are a pedophile.

This is a version of that. Musk isn't using his money to support a position, he is using it to nuke a candidate any way he can.