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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[Justsomecicada]

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.

That’s what ranked choice did to New York City and what it did to my state too. Big mistake.

 

[CarlosDanger]

First promo video dropped

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Incredibly dumb. This is just going to sap the Republican party until a few elections of Democrats winning everything clues people back in that you can't go back from a two-party system to a multi-party system without getting rid of first-past-the-post.

He's way too ADHD to do what is needed to make a new political party succeed. Some other shiny sparkly bauble will distract him and off he'll go. Probably sooner rather than later. Especially once he realizes he's having no more impact than when Michael Bloomberg tried to get on the ballots in a few states in 2020.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

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

Only if they run Ethan Ralph.

 

[Shroom King]

"I will liberate you from the jackboot of the elite" says the richest man in the world. Sure thing, boss. Whatever you say.

 

[Justsomecicada]

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%.

Third parties also have an issue of hilariously devolving into infighting. Look at libertarians for example. You have full blown ethno nats in the same “party” as people to the left of the dems on social issues.

 

[Mikoyan]

Only if they run Ethan Ralph.

HOW MANY WHYTE CHILDREN DO YOU HAVE DONALD TRUMP?

(mumbled) wait, that many? really?

 

[Zoobles]

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become the villain.

 

[Justsomecicada]

HOW MANY WHYTE CHILDREN DO YOU HAVE DONALD TRUMP?

(mumbled) wait, that many? really?

Aren’t most of them mischlings or is that just his grandkids

 

[Gandhi's Left Hook]

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.

100% a multipolar voting system leads to extremists having an easier time running things. Europe is a perfect example of this. Yet a two party system leads to the uni party system we have now.

An ideal world where we had no parties and people ran on their ideas with a populace that was educated to vote on the issues is too much to ask it seems....

 

[AssRapistDude1488]

SAAR musk we are of being stand by to do the needful at once saar and redeem the America Party
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It’s almost too on-the-nose that he had a street-shitting bhenchod do the filings.

The party’s platform is going to be:

Drastically increased H1Bs
Increasing taxes to fix the debt problem
Cutting spending on entitlements
More subsidies for economically unviable green energy (solar and wind)
YIMBY urbanism
Pro abortion
Mildly anti-woke
Pro gun control
Tough on crime

I don’t think this is going to take votes away from the GOP. This is going to attract “centrist” democrats and libertarians. And I don’t think it’ll get many. This particular combination of preferences is loud online and overrepresented among corporate middle managers and not much else.

 

[MrJokerRager]

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

Musk was made to worship the Wall or that Holobunga death camp by Ben Shapiro.

Can't remember which one.

 

[ZeCommissar]

Incredibly dumb. This is just going to sap the Republican party until a few elections of Democrats winning everything clues people back in that you can't go back from a two-party system to a multi-party system without getting rid of first-past-the-post.

I honestly don't think this is going to sap Republican numbers too much, atleast not in any significant numbers to affect elections. Most likely the standard tards that vote for the Libertarian party might go over to the new party thinking "this time it'll work!"

The majority of people who voted for Trump are fully onboard the MAGA train, and those that only voted because they hated the democrats more probably aren't the type to be courted by a retard like Musk.

 

[Jump]

Both the treasurer and party chair are Indian, off to a good start Elon.

(stolen from USPG2 thread)

 

[TowinKarz]

He's way too ADHD to do what is needed to make a new political party succeed. Some other shiny sparkly bauble will distract him and off he'll go. Probably sooner rather than later. Especially once he realizes he's having no more impact than when Michael Bloomberg tried to get on the ballots in a few states in 2020.

By the time the actual midterms roll around? This will have been long over.

He overestimates his personal popularity and will soon get bored with not being the center of what meager attention he got by having a public breakup with Trump.

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.

Unpopular with the party, not the electorate. Trump's numbers have, despite assurances, not been affected by closing/cutting the bureaucracy. Only the Democrats and people whose six figure sinecure just got flushed had anything bad to say.

 

[Gandhi's Left Hook]

I honestly don't think this is going to sap Republican numbers too much, atleast not in any significant numbers to affect elections. Most likely the standard tards that vote for the Libertarian party might go over to the new party thinking "this time it'll work!"

The majority of people who voted for Trump are fully onboard the MAGA train, and those that only voted because they hated the democrats more probably aren't the type to be courted by a retard like Musk.

Yea Im the type that voted for Trump because I hate democrats more. I like some of the things he's done, frankly more than any pres in my lifetime. But that bar is VERY low. The problems this country face wont be fixed by one man (or even exclusively the executive branch) in 4 or 20 years. We need a massive overhaul on our education system and thats going to take decades. Musk wants to solve US idiocy by importing street shitters and gang rapists. The only time he talks about schooling is to (rightfully) shit on it and he only does that to promote his street shitter vision for the US.

 

[draggs]

The organizational problem with this is that the party leader, Elon Musk, can't run for president, and isn't suited to run for congress. He would never be able to handle the responsibilities of being a representative or Senator. Can't spend 18 hour days at SpaceX or playing Diablo 4 when you're in congress. So inevitably, if the party even manages to reach the point of electing people to national office, there would be a leadership struggle that would split the party. Modern Western political parties don't function with a behind the scenes leader. The leaders in elected public offices inevitably chafe at some guy who doesn't run in and win elections trying to tell them what to do

Not that this party is going to elect a dogcatcher much less a representative or Senator. It likely won't even swing a single seat in the midterms because twitter is not the electorate. Democrats didn't learn that, now Musk has failed to learn it

 

[No-Eyed Square Guy]

Cutting spending on entitlements

Only the ones that have some benefit to white people, like Social Security and the Medi- programs.

When Elon finally got Twitter (someone else bought it for him because he has no fucking money, we forget) the first thing he did was fire all the white people and call it anti-wokeness. "Those are all the people censoring you! Blue hair nose ring!" They're all jeets now and you're still censored, if you're not an absolute faggot.

 

[John Furrman]

Only the ones that have some benefit to white people, like Social Security and the Medi- programs.

These will have to be abolished anyway. We've all paid in, but we were sold on a lie and the wound has become infected to the point of amputation I don't think Musk could be the one to do it, but it's coming.

 

[Fellen]

Considering how many people are dunking this, it's likely that all the people that voted "Yes" are bots and pajeets.