Audrey Fahlberg writes for National Review Online about Elon Musk’s impact on electoral politics.

Following Republicans’ drubbing in last night’s Wisconsin’s supreme court race, and their slight underperformance in two Florida special elections, a well-funded Democratic super PAC is taunting Elon Musk to stay involved with GOP campaign efforts in the upcoming midterms.

“HMP greatly encourages one of the most unpopular men in America to campaign with Republicans across the country,” says Katarina Flicker, a national press secretary for the House Majority PAC, a spending group that spends millions each cycle to elect Democrats to Congress. “His efforts will be crucial to Democrats taking back the House in 2026.”

Musk spent a pretty penny in Wisconsin this cycle trying to elect conservative candidate Brad Schimel to the Badger State’s highest bench, and even donned a cheesehead at a Sunday rally in an effort to juice GOP turnout. But his multimillion-dollar effort came up short when liberal Judge Susan Crawford — who talked constantly about Musk on the trail — defeated Schimel by roughly ten points, cementing liberals’ 4–3 Wisconsin Supreme Court majority.

And although Republicans decisively won two U.S. House seats on Tuesday evening in Florida by double-digit margins, Democrats are pleased that their special-election candidates — who also campaigned against Musk — narrowed the gap on the GOP’s 2024 victory margins in both districts. In 2024, former Representatives Mike Waltz and Matt Gaetz both sailed to victory with roughly 66 percent of the vote. Last night, Republicans Randy Fine and Jimmy Patronis carried those seats with roughly 57 percent of the vote — a nine-point swing toward Democrats in both districts. …

… Democrats should of course be wary of projecting overconfidence in the aftermath of Tuesday night’s electoral results given their disastrous 2024 presidential election performance and the bevy of polls that continue to suggest that the Democratic Party’s brand is in the toilet. But now we know for sure that, no matter how long Musk stays around the White House (in an official or unofficial capacity), Democrats are convinced that campaigning against the White House’s cost-cutter in chief will be a winning electoral strategy in 2026.