A super PAC controlled by President Donald Trump has committed millions of dollars to a cash-strapped Republican candidate fighting for his political life, according to campaign finance records.

MAGA Inc. will spend $10 million on television and digital advertising in support of Senate hopeful Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, as Morning Joe reporter Hugo Lowell announced on X.

The filing indicates that half of the money will fund messaging opposing the Democratic candidate, state Rep. James Talarico, while the other half will promote Paxton.

Elon Musk’s America PAC also contributed roughly $250,000 to boost Paxton’s campaign, the Texas Tribune reported this week.

Paxton’s campaign has been plagued by financial difficulties on several fronts. The millionaire Republican has struggled to fundraise: MS NOW reported Friday that new quarterly filings show Talarico brought in more than $31 million, while Paxton raised only $9.3 million.

That fundraising news arrived alongside another report on Paxton’s finances, this one focused on federal ethics laws. ProPublica and the Texas Tribune revealed that Paxton, in recent financial disclosures, reported owning seven homes that generated no income — despite residents and neighbors saying the properties were being rented out. Paxton also did not disclose mortgages on three condos at a Utah golf resort, according to the report.

Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist for the nonpartisan good-government group Public Citizen, reportedly responded to the disclosures: “It reflects either pure sloppiness on Paxton’s part or a deliberate effort to conceal some of his investments and property holdings.”

The spending surge underscores the high stakes of the race for Texas’s Senate seat. Ken Paxton, a Republican who has served as Texas attorney general since 2015, has been a prominent and at times controversial figure in state and national politics. In 2023, the Republican-led Texas House impeached him over allegations including bribery and abuse of office, though the Texas Senate acquitted him, and Trump endorsed Paxton during his primary challenge to incumbent Sen. John Cornyn — a split among Texas Republicans that carried into the general election. Talarico, a state representative from the Austin area, has mounted an unusually well-funded challenge in a state that has traditionally leaned Republican in statewide races, where no Democrat has won a statewide office since 1994. The outcome will bear on the broader fight for Senate control, where Republicans hold a narrow advantage and both parties have identified Texas as a battleground worth heavy outside spending. Super PACs such as MAGA Inc., which can raise and spend unlimited sums as long as they do not coordinate directly with campaigns, have become a dominant force in high-profile Senate contests, and the scale of the group’s Texas investment is a measure of how sharply the race’s dynamics have shifted since Paxton’s primary victory.