Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk contributed $10 million to a super PAC supporting pro-Trump GOP Senate candidate Nate Morris of Kentucky. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
"Elon picks winners. Elon has been the greatest entrepreneur in the history of our world, and people are going to be talking about him for 1,000 years. And he knows success. He knows leadership, and I think this is another example of him putting his money where his mouth is."
Morris noted that to date, he's "financed most of the campaign myself, and also with help from small dollars from all over the country that want to stop the McConnell machine and want to send a pro-Trump outside business person to the U.S. Senate."
But he emphasized that "this investment from Elon Musk is going to give our message, our campaign, the opportunity to continue to amplify why we should be the U.S. senator here in Kentucky, and the kind of senator we're going to be."
Asked why he thought Musk decided to support him, Morris, who had a recent conversation with the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, said, "I think he saw an outside business guy and someone that was willing to take on the Mitch McConnell machine, and someone that's going to tell it like it is, and has experience creating jobs, and I think also, a really tough, hard-line immigration policy."
Nate Morris, left, is joined by the late Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk at Morris’ 2026 Senate campaign launch on June 30, 2025, in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. (Nate Morris campaign)
Morris has also been endorsed by a number of other leading MAGA figures, including Sens. Bernie Moreno of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana, and Steve Bannon, a one-time leading Trump political strategist and host of the popular "War Room" podcast.
Barr campaign manager Blake Gober, responding to the news of the Musk donation, said in a statement, "The more money Nate Morris spends, the more Kentuckians get to see him and the worse he does."
"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 argued.
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Eight Democrats, including 2020 Senate nominee Amy McGrath, are running for their party's nomination in the Senate race in Kentucky.
The primary is scheduled for May 19, and the eventual GOP nominee will likely be considered the clear favorite in November's general election.
Fox News' Paige Dukeman contributed to this report.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast."
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