Overview

• Musk announced the America Party on July 5 after a poll of 1.25 million X users returned over 65% favoring independence from Republicans and Democrats.
• He outlined a strategy to focus on just two or three Senate seats and eight to ten House districts to wield decisive votes in a closely divided Congress.
• The launch follows Musk’s falling out with President Trump over the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which Musk criticized for ballooning the national debt.
• President Trump publicly rebuked the third-party bid as “ridiculous,” warning it would breed confusion, while the America Party has not yet filed with the Federal Election Commission.
• Musk frames the new party as a response to government waste and graft in what he calls a “one-party system,” promising to restore fiscal discipline.