Forbes asks what Musk's $458 million bought in the midterms

A follow-up on election spending arrives as the channel's daily views climb to nearly eleven times their usual level.

Channel: Forbes Story of November 6, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The whole channel is running at 2,657,130 views a day, 11 times a normal day (247,444).

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Forbes usually draws a few hundred thousand views a day. Its latest daily total is closer to 2.7 million, a sharp lift as its coverage moves from billionaires' election-night reactions to the spending behind those results.

The channel's roundup of those reactions drew a large audience, as we reported here. Its new follow-up, "Elon's ROI: $458 Million Didn't Buy Much In The Midterms," asks what Elon Musk's campaign spending actually achieved. Forbes cites Federal Election Commission filings and other reporting for the sum, then contrasts the scale of his support with Republicans' disappointing results.

Politics is only part of the channel's new lineup. In "How This Founder Made A Steak Product Using ChatGPT," Eben Bayer, co-founder of Ecovative and My Forest Foods, describes using the chatbot to formulate a plant-based mycelium steak. His role was to supply the sensory feedback the software couldn't provide: effectively serving as its mouth while it worked through flavor and diffusion problems.

That is a distinctly Forbes pairing: the return on a billionaire's political spending, and a founder trying to turn an AI conversation into dinner.

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Elon’s ROI: $458 Million Didn’t Buy Much In The Midterms14,568 views · 2026-11-05 How This Founder Made A Steak Product Using ChatGPT1,738 views · 2026-11-05 'I’m the Mouth for ChatGPT': How This Founder Is Formulating Food Wit…1,841 views · 2026-11-05 Billionaire Soccer Legend Cristiano Ronaldo Announces Retirement From…3,788 views · 2026-11-05

The numbers

The channel-wide daily view total is far above its usual pace; it is separate from the views on any individual new upload.

views per day, whole channel

typical day

247,444

now

2,657,130

subscribers

2,200,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

397,110,070

views per day

2,657,130

typical day: 247,444

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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2,480,000

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2,430,000

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2,270,000

Forbes

2,200,000

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2,090,000

CNBC Make It

2,010,000

As of November 6, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.