Overview

• Musk announced the America Party on July 5 via X, decrying a bipartisan “uniparty” of waste and promising to return freedom to voters.
• The launch followed a July 4 poll of 1.2 million X users, more than 60 percent of whom backed the formation of a new political party.
• He vowed to challenge any Republican who supported President Trump’s $3.9 trillion “One Big Beautiful Bill,” declaring they “will lose their primary next year.”
• Musk outlined a strategy to target just two to three Senate seats and eight to ten House districts to position the America Party as a potential tiebreaker in Congress.
• The party has not yet registered with the Federal Election Commission and faces high ballot-access hurdles and skepticism over diverting GOP resources.