Musk on the midterms: "Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time"

Elon Musk answered the midterm results the way he answers most things: with a joke on X. "Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time," the Tesla and SpaceX CEO posted early Wednesday, drawing hundreds of thousands of likes, Teslarati reports. The quip came after Democrats secured both the House and Senate. Musk, the cycle's largest individual donor, had directed an estimated $440–474 million toward Republican candidates and aligned groups, much of it in Texas, where Gina Hinojosa beat Gov. Greg Abbott and James Talarico ousted Ken Paxton. The "space lasers" line mocks the false conspiracy theories, circulating since 2024, that he used Starlink or other technology to change vote totals. Losing with a sense of humor beats the alternative — and it puts that conspiracy theory to rest better than any fact-check.