Mark Cuban, the billionaire who was reportedly “All In For Kamala Harris” in October of last year, is now one of the people all in for a new political party—one run by another billionaire, Elon Musk.
Musk—the richest person in the world who recently left his helm as the right-hand man for President Donald Trump after feuding over the GOP’s pricey funding package—announced on his social media site Saturday that he is creating “the America Party.” The high-profile separation has included Trump hinting that the administration would “take a look” at deporting Musk, Musk suggesting that Trump was “in the Epstein files,” and the pair generally warring online.
“Independence Day is the perfect time to ask if you want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system!” Musk wrote on Friday over a poll asking, “Should we create the America Party?” Over 65% of respondents said “Yes.”
“By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!” Musk posted the next day, adding, “Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.” As of Saturday evening, he had not filed paperwork for the new party. If Musk were to form a new entity, it would have to be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission.
Cuban wrote to Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX on X, saying that, through his work with the Center for Competitive Democracy, he can help get the America Party on ballots. “That is their mission,” Cuban, who The New York Times called a “prolific and vocal supporter” of Harris, wrote.
Along with Cuban, Anthony Scaramucci, who spent 11 days as Trump’s communications director in 2017, social media personality Brian Krassenstein, and Tyler Palmer, a tech investor who was the first employee at Patreon, also expressed support for Musk’s plan.
Throughout Saturday and into Sunday, Musk continued to post about forming a new party, sharing several memes, including one with his face superimposed onto Uncle Sam. In that post, created by “Tesla Owners Silicon Valley,” it states the America Party would focus, among other things, on adding more AI and robots into the military, decreasing regulation, and supporting a pronatalist agenda.
“The way we’re going to crack the uniparty system is by using a variant of how Epaminondas shattered the myth of Spartan invincibility at Leuctra,” Musk posted on X. “Extremely concentrated force at a precise location on the battlefield.” This strategy in practice, he explained, could “be to laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts.”
Musk, born in South Africa in 1971, acquired Canadian citizenship through his mother in 1988, moved to the US in 1992, and became a naturalized citizen in 2002. While he is not eligible to run for president, the billionaire has made it clear that he’s willing to shell out immense amounts of money to get who he wants in office.
Before their feud, Musk contributed at least $260 million toward efforts to send Trump back to the White House, according to FEC filings. He’s also promised $1 million checks to certain voters on multiple occasions to draw attention to the candidates he supports. In the spring, Musk poured more than $20 million into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race to back right-wing Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel. His efforts were unsuccessful, as Wisconsin voters opted for Dane County Judge Susan Crawford and maintained the court’s liberal majority.
With fellow billionaires like Cuban in his corner, it’s unclear just how much financial might could be behind the America Party.
During his blip as one of, if not the, most powerful person in Trump’s ear, Musk illustrated much of how he thinks Washington ought to run—ideas that have already come with immense consequences for Americans across the country and people around the world.
When Musk was still presiding over the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the new agency, in coordination with other parts of Trump’s administration, laid off hundreds of staffers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, fostered chaos at the Department of Veterans Affairs through canceled contracts, hiring freezes, and layoffs, and attempted to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, amongst other decisions, the ripple effects of which may not be known for years.
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