Big money flops as Democrats sweep US Congress

Hundreds of millions of dollars spent, with little to show for it. The rout of President Donald Trump and his Republicans in the US midterm elections was also a defeat for Elon Musk and for the massive campaign spending meant to sway voters. Democrats captured both the Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday in a stunning rejection of Trump’s political agenda, winning races in which conservative groups had poured in far more outside money than their liberal counterparts. “This might have been the biggest defeat for big money in American political history,” Logan Phillips, founder of…