亿万富翁、SpaceX首席执行官埃隆·马斯克在这个中期选举周期里究竟是被什么点燃了激情？今年他已向共和党候选人和相关事业捐赠了超过4.45亿美元，这使他成为2026年中期选举中公开身份的单一最大捐款者，也是历史上中期选举周期中最大的单一捐款者。根据最新数据，他已经捐出：共和党骑兵为肯·帕克斯顿驰援，得克萨斯州的大笔资金攻势开启资金闸门——参议院控制权如掷硬币般难料，而民主党的道路则穿过特朗普大本营。
What lit a fire under billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk this midterm cycle? He’s given more than $445 million to Republican candidates and causes this year, making him the single biggest disclosed donor in the 2026 midterms — and the biggest single donor in a midterm cycle ever. According to the most recent data, he’s given: REPUBLICAN CAVALRY ARRIVES FOR KEN PAXTON AS BIG-BUCKS TEXAS OFFENSIVE OPENS CASH FLOODGATES SENATE CONTROL IS A COIN FLIP — AND DEMOCRATS’ PATH RUNS THROUGH TRUMP COUNTRY All this makes the $288 million Musk gave to help elect President Donald Trump and Republicans in 2024 look miserly.
所有这一切，让马斯克在2024年为帮助选举唐纳德·特朗普总统和共和党人而给出的2.88亿美元看起来微不足道。为什么捐这么多？因为马斯克意识到，保持共和党在国会的多数党地位，已成为美国安全与繁荣未来的关键。在上周的社交媒体平台上，马斯克分享了一篇帖子，赞同民主党在中期选举中“必须失败”的观点。批评人士声称他这样做是因为他害怕遭到民主党控制的国会的调查。事实是，他明白塑造一个强大的美国需要什么，又是什么在威胁要将其摧毁。
Why so much more? Because Musk realizes that keeping the Republican majority in Congress has become crucial to America’s secure and prosperous future. On his social media platform, Musk shared a post last week agreeing that Democrats "must lose" the midterms. Critics claim he’s doing this because he fears investigations by a Democrat-controlled Congress. The truth is, he understands what it takes to build a strong America, and what threatens to tear it down.
他并不孤单。其他科技和金融界的亿万富翁也加入了他，他们正斥资数千万美元，以保护美国的未来免受民主党的影响。科技企业家和风投巨头马克·安德森和本·霍罗威茨是特朗普“美国优先”超级政治行动委员会（MAGA, Inc.）的主要金主。城堡投资集团的肯·格里芬已经花费了至少4000万美元来支持共和党候选人。黑石集团首席执行官史蒂夫·施瓦茨曼和他的妻子克里斯蒂娜在本选举周期向与共和党有关联的政治组织和超级政治行动委员会捐赠了近3200万美元。
He’s not alone. He’s been joined by other tech and financial billionaires who are spending tens of millions to protect America’s future from the Democrats. Tech entrepreneurs and venture capital giants Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are major contributors to Trump’s MAGA, Inc. Citadel’s Ken Griffin has spent at least $40 million to support Republican candidates. Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman and his wife Christine have put up almost $32 million to Republican-affiliated political organizations and Super PACs this election cycle.
所有这一切，让马斯克在2024年为帮助选举唐纳德·特朗普总统和共和党人而给出的2.88亿美元看起来微不足道。为什么捐这么多？因为马斯克意识到，保持共和党在国会的多数党地位，已成为美国安全与繁荣未来的关键。不仅仅是科技亿万富翁向共和党敞开了钱包。据报道，美国家居建材零售商Uline创始人伊丽莎白和理查德·尤莱因已为他们自己的“美国复兴”超级政治行动委员会投入了1.24亿美元，屋顶材料公司ABC Supply董事长黛安·亨德里克斯已向“美国优先”超级政治行动委员会捐赠了2500万美元。
All this makes the $288 million Musk gave to help elect President Donald Trump and Republicans in 2024 look miserly. Why so much more? Because Musk realizes that keeping the Republican majority in Congress has become crucial to America’s secure and prosperous future. It’s not just tech billionaires who’ve opened their wallets to the GOP. Uline founders Elizabeth and Richard Uihlein have reportedly put up $124 million for their own Restoration of America PAC, and roofing company ABC Supply Chairman Diane Hendricks has given $25 million to MAGA, Inc. In 2025, we saw the denizens of America’s high-tech sector — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, and key Google executives — paying out millions for Trump’s inauguration festivities.
2025年，我们看到美国高科技行业的居民们——亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝佐斯、Meta首席执行官马克·扎克伯格、苹果公司的蒂姆·库克以及谷歌的关键高管们——为特朗普的就职庆典支付了数百万美元。贝佐斯、库克、扎克伯格和OpenAI的萨姆·奥特曼甚至亲自出席了就职典礼——埃隆·马斯克也出席了。他们对特朗普和共和党有什么媒体不了解的理解？
Bezos, Cook, Zuckerberg and OpenAI’s Sam Altman even attended the inauguration in person — as did Elon Musk. What did they understand about Trump and the GOP that the media didn’t?
根据《华盛顿邮报》报道，在这个中期选举周期，偏向共和党的超级捐款总共贡献了17亿美元，其中马斯克领跑，相比之下偏向民主党的捐款者贡献了8.32亿美元。
This midterm cycle, according to The Washington Post, total Republican-leaning mega-donors have contributed $1.7 billion this cycle with Musk leading the way, compared to $832 million from Democratic-leaning givers.
批评人士将这些捐赠者贬低为超级富豪寡头和强盗资本家，试图保护他们来路不正的钱财。批评人士错了，错得离谱。事实是，我们私营部门经济的关键掌舵人正在采取果断行动来保护美国的未来。那是因为他们看到了通往未来的两种可能路径，而且只有两条。一条让美国强大、繁荣和安全，拥有减税、投资、能源主导地位以及强大且无与伦比的军队。
Critics dismiss these donors as superrich oligarchs and robber barons trying to protect their ill-gotten money. Critics are wrong, tragically wrong. The truth is, the key stewards of our private sector economy are taking bold action to protect America’s future. That’s because they see two possible paths to the future, and only two. One makes America strong, prosperous and secure, with tax cuts, investment, energy dominance and a strong, unequaled military.
一条最终应对动荡了中东、并在四十年里在世界各地杀害了数千人（包括在伊拉克和阿富汗的美军士兵）的伊朗。一条看到了需要削减美国政府问责局所说联邦预算中高达5000亿美元欺诈的必要性——正是这一事业最初让埃隆·马斯克团结到了政府效率部的议程周围。一条认为美国在人工智能领域的主导地位是保护我们自由的关键。一条认为恢复美国的制造业和工业基础是保护繁荣的关键。
One deals finally with the Iran that has destabilized the Middle East, and killed thousands around the world, including American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, for four decades. One sees the need to cut what the GAO says could be as much as $500 billion of fraud from the federal budget — the cause that rallied Elon Musk to the DOGE agenda in the first place. One sees American AI dominance as key to protecting our freedom. One sees restoring America’s manufacturing and industrial base, as key to protecting prosperity.
这一切都站在一边。在另一边是一个做出诸如“全民医保”等不可持续的政策承诺的政党。根据《华盛顿邮报》报道，在这个中期选举周期，偏向共和党的超级捐款总共贡献了17亿美元，其中马斯克领跑，相比之下偏向民主党的捐款者贡献了8.32亿美元。
All that stands on one side. On the other is a party that makes unsustainable policy promises like "Medicare for All." This midterm cycle, according to The Washington Post, total Republican-leaning mega-donors have contributed $1.7 billion this cycle with Musk leading the way, compared to $832 million from Democratic-leaning givers.
一个将重新带来失控的政府开支狂潮的政党，正是这种开支导致拜登执政期间的累计通胀率上升了21%。一个根植于腐败、浪费和欺诈的政党，正如政府效率部首先曝光的那样，现在又被副总统万斯的反对欺诈特别工作组所曝光。一个在面对伊朗、中国或穆斯林兄弟会等美国敌人时，一直表现出软弱和敷衍的政党。最后，一个威胁要调动那些将法国街头和欧洲城市变成战场的相同激进力量的政党。
A party that will give back the uncontrolled government spending spree that drove cumulative inflation up 21% during the Biden years. A party cradled in corruption, waste and fraud, as exposed first by DOGE and now by Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force. A party that has consistently presented weakness and prevarication to America’s foes, whether it’s Iran or China or the Muslim Brotherhood. Finally, a party that threatens to mobilize the same radical forces that have turned the streets of France and European cities into battlegrounds.
对于埃隆·马斯克以及我们私营部门最优秀、最聪明的创始人和企业家来说，选择是明朗的。2024年投票支持唐纳德·特朗普的那7700万美国人，现在面临着同样的选择。要么重新走进投票亭以保护美国安全繁荣的未来，要么把国会拱手交给那些想要让破产和声名狼藉的过去卷土重来的人。
The choice is clear to Elon Musk, and our private sector’s best and brightest founders and entrepreneurs. Those 77 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump in 2024, now face the same choice. It is either to return to the voting booth in order to protect America’s safe and prosperous future or hand Congress over to those who want to bring back a bankrupt and discredited past. .
如果我们不齐心协力，这将是美国的不幸，也是我们所有人的悲剧。发自亚瑟·赫尔曼
It will be America’s tragedy, and ours, if we don’t take it together. FROM ARTHUR HERMAN