US Elon Musk's New Party: Who Has Declared Interest? - Musk posted a poll on July 4, asking respondents if they wanted a new party, with 65.4 percent saying that they supported the idea.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 2020.
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Musk posted a poll on July 4, asking respondents if they wanted a new party, with 65.4 percent saying that they supported the idea.

On X, formerly Twitter, he wrote: "Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom," citing the poll.

Given he is a foreign-born U.S. citizen, Musk cannot run for president but he can support third-party candidates, who can put themselves on the ballot in every state, if they have enough signatures to support their bid. However, this could prove difficult because it is rare for third-party candidates to break through significantly in federal elections.

What To Know​

Posting on X, Marc Cuban, a billionaire businessman and TV personality suggested he was interested in the party, sharing fireworks emojis then writing: "I work with [Center for Competitive Democracy]. They will help you get on ballots. That is their mission."

Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired by Donald Trump just 10 days into the job as White House communications director in 2017, wrote: "I would like to meet to discuss."

Social media personality Brian Krassenstein, who has over 900,000 followers, wrote: "Awesome! Where can we see more information?"

Tyler Palmer, a tech investor and producer, suggested policies the America Party should endorse like modernizing the military with AI and robotics and said if these policies were on the platform "where do we send our donations?"

However, other people expressed concerns about the party.

Roger Stone, a longtime Republican strategist and Trump loyalist, said: "I have huge respect for @elonmusk and everything he has done for free speech and to ferret out waste fraud and corruption in federal spending, but I would rather see him pursue his efforts at electoral reform within the Republican Party primaries rather than having a new party splitting the vote of sane people and letting the Marxist Democrats gain control again."

Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon also criticized the party on the Friday edition of his podcast The War Room.

"The foul, the buffoon. Elmo the Mook, formerly known as Elon Musk, Elmo the Mook," Bannon said. "He's today, in another smear, and this—only a foreigner could do this—think about it, he's got up on, he's got up on Twitter right now, a poll about starting an America Party, a non-American starting an America Party."

He added: "No, brother, you're not an American. You're a South African. We take enough time and prove the facts of that, you should be deported because it's a crime of what you did—among many."

What People Are Saying​

Dafydd Townley, an American politics expert at the University of Portsmouth, previously told Newsweek that "third parties do not tend to have a long lifetime in American politics," adding that Musk's new party "would likely split the Republican vote, potentially resulting in a Democrat-dominated House of Representatives, at least in the short term, due to the winner-takes-all electoral system."

What Happens Next​

As more details about the party emerge, it is likely that other high-profile political figures will comment on it, either to criticize the initiative or to offer their support.

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[147573952589676412927]

Ah yes, Proton-mail, what all the serious political people use to register political parties.
What a retard. His shenanigans online are teenager-level.

 

[Divine right to rule]

They question is not really if this party will succeed, I am certain it won't, but if it would manage to get enough votes to damage the Republicans in upcoming elections, like the Green Party does with the Democrats.

What even would his platform be? 80% left-wing positions, 20% libertarian but against troons and woke culture?
That's not enough, retard.

 

[CarlosDanger]

The problem with third parties is that you'd end up with Extreme Left Wing Party winning 30% of the vote, then winning by default because Normal Right Wing Party got 25%, Normal Left Wing Party got 15%, Extreme Right Wing But Not Really Party got 12%, Green Party got 7%, and so on.

Yeah we have seen this in France and other places where elections just turn into far left parties blocking the right from ever winning. These 3rd parties that spring up promising to be non partisan and to be "moderate" always end up with 90-95% of the same policies as the Democrat Party with a feel token "Republicans" like Jeff Flake or Larry Hogan that will do the whole "I'm a hunter and I support the second amendment....but" schtick you hear all the time. So far the "America First" party platform is basically Canada 2.0.

 

[Mikoyan]

Ah yes, Proton-mail, what all the serious political people use to register political parties.
What a retard. His shenanigans online are teenager-level.

<russmumble> No real lawyer would!

What even would his platform be? 80% left-wing positions, 20% libertarian but against troons and woke culture?
That's not enough, retard.

And vast cutting of spending which is a thing that never happens precisely because though most people say they want smaller more efficient government, the service cuts necessary are so unpopular that it never happens.

 

[The greater a'tuin]

Elon's emotional egotism has alienated both left and right, now his only allies are conniving cow kissers. He is in for a rude awakening. Should have stayed put on xitter hyping up spaceships.

 

[Just Want 2 Read]

Maybe Musk is rich enough, but he would have to be a lot more charismatic, dynamic, and tapped into the mindset of Americans to make a third party viable or even threaten the voting shares of the major parties.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

I would never associate with such faggots.

Trump should deport Elon and his tranny kid

 

[CarlosDanger]

Like I said I cannot wait until the richest man in the world and his rich surrogates campaign on cutting grandmas social security and medicaid while wanting to flood the US with a bunch of Indians.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Two kikes (Cuban hides his kippah), a turbosperg shithead still malding that Trump said "lol no" and slashed EV subsidies, a coattail-riding asshole whose stint in the first Trump administration was basically over before it even began, a literal who techbro... what a fucking A-team.

 

[Gregis]

Everyone who's not directly getting paid by one of the two major parties wants a third party. But they don't want this third party, they just want a third party that perfectly agrees with them about everything.

 

[Mikoyan]

rich surrogates

Do you mean his actual rich friends as political surrogates or, like, y'know, his actual surrogates?

It's hilarious that this is a real overloaded term in Elon's case.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

So how many AIPAC babysitters will this new party have, and how does it compare to the current two-party lie?

 

[Ed Special]

I want Musk to make his own party because I want to watch him piss away his fortune faster and make as much of an ass of himself as possible.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Everyone who's not directly getting paid by one of the two major parties wants a third party. But they don't want this third party, they just want a third party that perfectly agrees with them about everything.

You want a third party that agrees with you.
I want a third party because I think it’ll be entertaining and a train wreck.
We are not the same.

Anyone remember when Pat Buchanan made a hot mess of the reform party?

 

[Seafarer]

So how many AIPAC babysitters will this new party have, and how does it compare to the current two-party lie?

Don’t know if Jews will even want to spend the money on a DOA political party, they are very frugal after all

 

[grump]

technically and ideologically Elon is correct in that we should be getting serious about the debt. Realistically we won't and not even the richest man in the world can change that and we or our descendants will probably just have to eat whatever consequences are coming for us so from our unbridled profligacy so ironically Trump is the pragmatically correct one. At least in the short term.

 

[The Last Stand]

What even would his platform be? 80% left-wing positions, 20% libertarian but against troons and woke culture?
That's not enough, retard.

I'm eyeing on it being authoritarian in nature, libertarian in practice for his own benefits. I don't even believe that Elon has any political alignment that doesn't directly benefit his eccentric nature. Henceforth, the party will be full of grifters and anti-Trumpers.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Elon Musk has more in common with his tranny son than he thinks. What a BPD case.

Not every unlikable person has BPD. Musk is just an out-of-touch autist surrounded by yes-men.

 

[Gregis]

You want a third party that agrees with you.
I want a third party because I think it’ll be entertaining and a train wreck.
We are not the same.

Anyone remember when Pat Buchanan made a hot mess of the reform party?

Lol, but do you want the train wreck bad enough to vote for it in the general?

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Trump proved the futility of third parties by coming in as an outsider and taking over one of the two real parties. Meanwhile, Bernie proved the futility of doing the same with the Democratic Party because of the superdelegates and other internal roadblocks.

It's possible that Musk Party will accomplish something by focusing a lot of money on a handful of specific races in the House of Reps, but it would have been better to mount primary challenges, which I recall being his original plan before this stupid idea. Not that it would go well either, since House reelection rates are routinely above 90%.