Live: Elon Musk has nearly 242 million followers on X, the platform that he owns. But he has not been using his megaphone to boost Republican candidates much this cycle. That has changed dramatically in the last few days. Musk, the world’s richest person, has focused on James Talarico, the Democratic nominee in the state that he now calls home. “There is something deeply wrong with Talarico,” Musk posted today. Yesterday he boosted Musk's opponent, Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, writing, “The fate of Texas and America is at stake.”