Give Elon Musk credit: The guy with the most money also offers up the highest degree of hyperbole when it comes to today’s election. “The entire destiny of humanity” rests on the outcome of today’s Supreme Court election, Musk said in Wisconsin on Sunday. It’s a dramatic way of saying he’s about to find out if he correctly guessed the price tag for buying an election or if he set more than $20 million on fire to learn a hard lesson about trying to mess with Wisconsin democracy.

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