Elon Musk's response to the defeat of the Republicans in the US midterm elections: "My space lasers did not work this time" Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and the owner of Tesla and SpaceX, on the morning of Wednesday, November 4, after the defeat of the Republicans in the US midterm elections, published a humorous message on X and wrote: "Apparently my space lasers that interfered with the elections did not work this time." According to AFP, Musk spent hundreds of millions of dollars in this election to support Republican candidates, especially Ken Paxton, the Republican candidate for the Senate.