Elon Musk Donates to Ken Paxton's Campaign for Senate in Texas

Apu Gomes/Getty Images Tech broligarch Elon Musk is using his mountains of cash to try to mop up the mess Donald Trump has made of the GOP’s Senate hopes in Texas.

Musk, 55, had his team call party operatives in the deep-red state earlier in August to discuss salvaging scandal-ridden MAGA candidate Ken Paxton’s campaign, Axios reports .

Political advisers to the world’s richest man told the Republican Senate Leadership Fund that the SpaceX founder would be willing to give $5 million to a Paxton-aligned group if it pledged to raise the same amount on its own.

Officials on the other end of that call then begged Musk’s team to double his input to $10 million if the leadership fund threw in the extra $5 million.

He agreed.

Despite the major cash injection, Paxton trails his Democratic rival James Talarico by 3 points in the polls with just 18 days to go until the midterms.

The episode is just one part of Musk’s frantic, multimillion-dollar scramble to save Republicans from a wipeout at the Nov.

3 midterms driven by Donald Trump’s cratering approval ratings.

The 80-year-old president is at 32 percent favorability, the worst of his political career so far and below even where he stood after the Jan.

6 riots.

Democrats hold a 9-point lead less than three weeks out from the race for control of the House and Senate.

Musk has thrown an astonishing $366 million at groups backing Republican candidates in his effort to stave off an electoral disaster for the party, the New York Times revealed on Tuesday .

His contributions to Paxton’s campaign were crucial in preventing the GOP from exhausting its resources on a race that strategists warned ahead of time would cost a fortune to win and ought not to have been competitive in the first place, Axios reports.

Trump threw his backing behind Paxton in the primary against incumbent Sen.