Overview

• Musk plans to field candidates in two to three Senate contests and about a dozen House districts in hopes of tipping a narrowly divided Congress.
• The party’s chosen domain americaparty.com is owned by a third party demanding $6.9 million and it settled for the @AmericaPartyX handle on X.
• It has not filed with the Federal Election Commission or produced a manifesto or formal organizational framework.
• Political scientists warn that first-past-the-post voting, state ballot-access laws and entrenched two-party infrastructure make third-party wins exceedingly unlikely.
• Prominent Democrats such as Reid Hoffman, Jared Bernstein and Larry Summers share alarm over the $37 trillion national debt even as they propose different solutions.