The breakup between Donald Trump and Elon Musk started with Musk’s harsh criticism of and then attempt to prevent passage of the Big Beautiful Bill.
Musk ran a “poll” on X as to whether he should form a third party. There were 1.2 million votes – which could and likely does include bots and manipulators – and the result was 65% voting in favor:
Now Musk is going third party, he says:
By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it! When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy. Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.
Whether this is a “real” intent to form an independent party is questionable. It’s one thing to talk about it, it’s another thing to do it and to put the infrastructure in place including candidates who can win.
But if Musk does form a third party, and he certainly has the money to do it, it’s uniformly predicted to ciphon away more Republicans, perhaps enough to hand the House back to the Democrats. Musk feels he has power because it will only take a small change in voting patters to make a large national impact as to control of the House:
A lot of people trying to elect Republicans are not happy and sense doom.
Considering how much Democrats hate Musk and want to bring him down – and they absolutely will if they regain power – Elon shouldn’t wish too hard for something; his third-party ploy may just get it for him.
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