What are the chances of Musk's party. Breaking the US bipartid system, a hard -to -reach goal
Elon Musk announced on Saturday the establishment of a new political formation, America Party (America Party), saying that Trump's “Great and Beautiful and Beautiful” Fiscal Law will bankrupt the country. But the success of a new party in a bipolar political system with an old history seems to be a difficult goal, writes CNN, taken by News.ro.
One day after asking his followers on the X platform if a new political party in the US should be created, Musk wrote on the social network that he holds that “today, America Party is created to play your freedom.”
Musk's announcement comes after Trump promulgated the US National Day on Friday, the law on reducing taxes and public spending, which Musk vehemently criticized.
Ross Perot's failed attempt
It is not clear to what extent Musk has taken measures to legally set up the party, which should be registered with the Federal Electoral Commission (FEC). The latest documents submitted to the FEC do not indicate that this would have happened.
The richest man in the world has indicated that he wants a conservative party from a fiscal point of view and to control the expenses, but provided little about the party platform. Musk and Trump have similar opinions on contemporary social problems. Musk, however, argued that the political agenda of the Republicans will increase the debt, calling it “slavery of debt”.
The Bipartid system in the United States has long been criticized by both the democrats and the registered Republicans, but the efforts of the last century to form a third party were little successful. Billionaire Ross Perot ran for the presidency as an independent in 1992, winning almost a fifth of the folk vote, but he did not win any state in the elections won by Bill Clinton.
According to CNN, experts in financing electoral campaigns and political science say that it is financially and legally difficult to create a new party, and voters and candidates hesitate to join.
First Test: The intermediate choices of 2026
Musk has told other posts on social networks this week that his party will become an active political force during the half -year term and that he will initially focus on supporting the candidates in a few electoral races for the representative and Senate.
At first glance, it seems that Musk's parid could affect the chances of the Republicans in the future intermediate elections of 2026. So far, the platform of the new party includes responsible fiscal measures, ie reducing expenses and balancing the budget, which Musk has tried to do with dog. In addition, Musk's long -term political position on freedom of expression and reduction of regulations will also be part of the American Party platform. This could be a problem for Trump and GOP (Republican Party), which, historically, was the party to reduce the deficit and reduce the government excess.
It remains to be seen whether the American party will present their own candidates in 2026. If it will present candidates, the Chamber of Representatives could be the place where the American party can tilt the balance in favor of the Democrats. Currently, the Republican Party has a minimum advantage in the lower room, and the president's party historically suffers important losses in the Chamber during the elections in the middle of the mandate. In the Senate, Trump has more maneuver space, with an advantage of three places and a favorable electoral map.
Third parties are negligible in the American political system. Libertarians, the largest third party party in the US, have no representative chosen in Congress or in state positions.
The last candidate of a third party to successfully on the ballot was the former boxer Jesse Ventura, who won the elections for the position of governor in Minnesota in 1998 on the lists of the Reform Party. But he also became independent one year after his term of office.
In the current Congress, only two independents are part of each room. These are independent senators Bernie Sanders from Vermont and Angus King from Maine, both part of the Democrats.
The risks that Elon Musk assumes
Trump has already launched threats to the one who at one point was his most visible counselor. The president declared earlier this week that the government could reconsider the massive contracts with Musk's companies and described the Department for government efficiency, previously led by the billionaire, as a monster that could “return to devour Elon.”
Musk, who became the richest man in the world because of his Tesla car company and his Spacex satellite company, has significant contracts with the state, or Trump's statement is threatening to cut billions of dollars that Musk's companies receive from the federal government.
And the first sign of investor dissatisfaction with Musk's political announcement came a few hours later. The investment company Azoria Partners will postpone the listing of a tesla fund traded on the stock exchange, said the CEO of Azoria, James Fishback, in an X. Fishback post asks Tesla to clarify the political ambitions of Musk and said that the new party undermines the confidence that the shareholders had to focus on government in May.
On the other hand, Republicans have expressed concern that the enmity between Musk and Trump could affect their chances of protecting most of their intermediate legislative elections in 2026.
Asked at X which was the only thing that made him go from Trump to attack him, Musk said: “Increasing the deficit from a crazy $ 2t under Biden to $ 2.5t. This will bankrupt the country.”
Trump dispute, often described as one between the richest man in the world and the strongest man in the world, has led to several steep decreases in the price of Tesla shares. The actions increased after Trump's re -election in November and reached a maximum of over $ 488 in December, before losing more than half of value in April and closing last week at $ 315.35.
Despite Musk's deep pockets, breaking the Republican-Democratic American Bipolar System will be a difficult task, given that it has dominated American political life for over 160 years, while Trump's approval ratings in his second term surveys generally to over 40 %, despite his policies,
