Overview

• On July 4, Musk polled followers on X to ask whether to create the America Party as an alternative to the two major parties.
• He proposed a ‘laser-focus’ strategy targeting 2–3 Senate seats and 8–10 House districts to wield decisive votes under narrow majorities.
• Libertarian Party chairman Steven Nekhaila urged Musk to join their existing party rather than founding a new one.
• White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller dismissed Musk’s critiques of the spending bill as those of an outside voice.
• Musk’s third-party push challenges structural ballot-access barriers and tests his financial clout in U.S. politics.