Saturday, 12 July 2025

Elon Musk Gives Details On Plan To Create New “America Party”

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This Independence Day, Elon Musk is doubling down on his proposal to start a new political party, which he is calling the “America Party.”

Today on X, he gave some more details on his plan, explaining how he would focus on gaining key seats in the House and Senate in order to become the “deciding vote on contentious laws.”

Read his full post here:

Elon Musk first floated the idea of starting a third political party after his falling-out with President Trump over the Big, Beautiful Bill.

On Monday evening, he brought it up again, vowing to start the America Party “the next day” after the Big Beautiful Bill passed.

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However, actually carrying through with his threat could be harder than Musk thinks.

CBS News explained more about how the process would work:

It remains unclear if Musk will follow through on his pledge, but the idea could be easier said than done. If Musk decides to launch a new political party, he’ll need to contend with a thicket of complicated state laws, time-consuming ballot access rules and intense litigation.

“Only the richest person in the world could make a serious effort at creating a new American political party,” Brett Kappel, a veteran election lawyer, told CBS News.

“Political parties are creatures of the states,” Kappel said.

Each state has different legal rules for recognizing which political parties can appear on the ballot, and those hurdles “range from high to extraordinarily difficult to overcome,” he noted. In some cases, a nascent state party may need to get candidates onto the ballot by submitting large numbers of signatures, and then win a certain percentage of the vote across election cycles.

For example, to qualify in California, a new political party needs to either sign up 0.33% of the state’s voters — or about 75,000 people — as registered members, or submit signatures from 1.1 million voters. After that, in order to remain qualified, parties have to either maintain that 0.33% registration threshold or win at least 2% of the vote in a statewide race.

And to gain recognition at the national level, each state-level political party would need to seek an advisory opinion from the Federal Election Commission.

These efforts would almost certainly face intense pushback from the Democratic and Republican parties, including legal challenges over signatures in each state, requiring Musk — or any other aspiring third-party founder — to spend scores of money on litigation.

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“The state laws in all of the states are biased towards the two major political parties, and make it as difficult as possible for the emergence of a third political party,” Kappel told CBS News.

The process of creating a political party with national ambitions would be time-consuming, too. Kappel says it might be doable — albeit difficult — for Musk to get a few favored candidates onto the ballot in certain states, but building an entirely new national party would likely take years, and would not be possible by the 2026 midterm elections.

Not to mention the fact that, while starting a third party that represents 80% of American people might be a good idea in theory, it may not be so great in practice.

Elon should really listen to these replies:

Scott Presler brought the receipts:

Besides, President Trump already achieved what Elon is proposing — representing the majority of Americans through an alternative movement.

That’s exactly what MAGA is.

If Elon truly wants to get the will of the people done, he should team back up with President Trump.

This is the way.

What are your thoughts? Do you agree?

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This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

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