Musk floats new party in signal he could torch GOP

[highplainsdem]

Source: Axios

Elon Musk posted a poll to X on Thursday asking followers whether they support the idea of a new political party to take on the Republicans and Democrats.

Why it matters: The richest man in the world is publicly feuding with the most powerful man in America, whom he spent record-setting sums to elect. We're about to find out what he's actually prepared to do about it.

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The intrigue: Musk had already gone after House Republicans for near-unanimously approving the bill, but it was unclear if he was going to leverage his fortune or his huge platform against them.

Then, Musk posted a tweet that will likely send a chill down the spine of Republican operatives, who were thrilled about the big tent coalition they assembled in 2024 with Musk's help.

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Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/elon-musk-new-party-poll-trump

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Btw, I voted NO in Elon's poll, but the vote is currently more than 83% YES.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[speak easy]

1. It's all about selling more Teslas.

[highplainsdem]

4. Nope. This is much more serious. This isn't a fake feud, a charade for PR.

[Miguelito Loveless]

42. That ship has sailed

Musk has destroyed the brand. He made a conscious decision to alienate the vast majority of his customer base (political liberals concerned about the environment) to curry favor with people who hate his product and the environment. Now he has alienated the few of those who would buy his product. His sales are crashing and I don't see them recovering while he has anything to do with the business, including owning stock. If Ford is smart, they will buy the brand for pennies on the dollar when it crashes.

[dweller]

2. Yeh and

He will guarantee the new party will win with 99% of the vote .
He knows those electoral machines , dontcha know
😐

✌🏻

[Lovie777]

3. Loomer, musk and shithole are insane.....

with the rest of the GQP.

Middle my ass.

[highplainsdem]

6. Of course they're not the middle, but they have to claim they are. "We the lunatic fringe" doesn't sound

nearly as good as "We the people."

[Zorro]

5. Trump may issue an EO to investigate Musk's drug use

[cabotnn22]

7. I'm skeptical

I think they engineered this "feud." Both are publicity hounds.

[mdbl]

9. This makes logical sense.

I don't know if we can apply logic, but I like it.

[quakerboy]

21. yup.

Let me know when anyone actually does anything meaningful. Words are nothing

[Basso8vb]

8. My new blessing for everyone:

"May you live long enough to see MAGA swinging from light poles."

[DBoon]

10. or a gas station in Milan...

[Shipwack]

24. An appropriate quote from the TV show "Babylon 5"

"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next 10 generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this:
[waves at Morden]
Can you and your associates arrange that for me Mr. Morden?"
- Vir Cotto (played by the late Stephen Furst)

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[Conjuay]

40. "Or on your way to heaven, see them heading the other way".

[patricia92243]

11. What is Fox News saying about this. The unwashed masses will do what Fox tells them to do.

Whichever one that Fox thinks is the financially best for them is who they will back.

[SunSeeker]

14. We already know. And soon Musk will know what happens to disobedient oligarchs.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/29/1088886554/how-putin-conquered-russias-oligarchy

[SunSeeker]

12. Musk thinks he represents the "middle 80%" ???

Have some more ecstasy, Elon.

[EarlG]

13. I thought to myself that

Musk has the resources to pull this off in the way that no third-party challenger has previously.

However, if Trump kills SpaceX and Tesla by pulling their various incentives and government contracts, Musk may suddenly not have many resources after all...

[highplainsdem]

15. No idea what will happen. But I just talked to a Republican relative who's desperately hoping this is

all theater.

I'm seeing Musk get a lot of pushback from Trump loyalists on X, especially over the Epstein tweet.

[SunSeeker]

18. MAGA will stay with Trump. Elon will learn the hard way.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[BlueKota]

32. My psychiatrist, who I see for severe chronic depression and anxiety

sometimes discuss politics with me, because it's a trigger for both of my issues.

She speculated that as if by some miracle tsf was to be impeached, have his cabinet remove him by the 25 ammendment, or he were to pass due to natural causes, she doesn't think Vance will have the support from the public that tsf does. She said cultists don't usually transfer allegiance from one leader they were devoted to, to his successor. Plus she says she doesn't think Vance does has the type of personality that draws a cult following.

So my guess is you're right that people will side with Trump, over Musk for the same type of reasons. Where my hope lies is Musk has proof of something really damaging on tsf, that isn't public knowledge already, and that can't be swept under the rug as easily. Also that he pulls campaign contributions from all the Rethugs in the house and senate.

[SunSeeker]

16. Musk makes his core billions off the government teet. He's dead if they cut him off. nt

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[slightlv]

28. If you read and investigate musk, the exact same thing can be said

for musk, too. Neither could make it on their own without wealthy welfare from government largesse.

[SunSeeker]

30. I meant Musk.

I corrected my post.

But yes, they are both grifting us taxpayers.

[Mawspam2]

20. Trump has already threatened to pull all of Musk's

...contracts and Musk is threatening to strand all the ISS astronauts to die.

[Shipwack]

25. Ross Perot had the resources...

Granted, not the obscene levels that Musk has, but a sufficient amount. I also think he was a better manager than Musk. He still failed to create a third party.

The same flaw is common between the two: neither wants/wanted to do the hard, boring, unglamorous stuff.

If Elon tries to create a party, it will be for the sole purpose of getting himself elected POTUS. I doubt he’ll invest in getting Senators etc elected. He won’t have anyone running for state legislatures (let alone municipal elections). With no foundation, the whole organization will collapse as soon as he grows bored or discouraged from failure.

And fail he will. He’ll micromanage every part of the campaign. He won’t seek advice because he knows he’s a genius…

[slightlv]

29. I would answer that musk isn't allowed to run for the presidency,

let alone BE president. But we all know what the Constitution means to people of power and money these days. It only matters to those of us patriots who haven't drunk the kool-aid.

Note: I'm so angry at the things I'm reading today in politics, and the idiot things happening around my house, I hit post *before* reading it! (LOL) Oh, for some of Elon's drugs!

[BlueKota]

17. Textbook example of what happens

when 2 people with narcissistic personality disorder try to work together. It was bound to explode sooner or later. I am actually surprised it wasn't sooner.

Hopefully it will be the ultimate downfall for both of them, and at least start us on a path away from the destruction they've been wreaking.

[tanyev]

22. Yes. This is why you shouldn't hand the government over to narcissistic playground bullies.

[ailsagirl]

36. ...

[groundloop]

19. Hell has frozen over.... Go for it Eloon.

This might get interesting.

[cstanleytech]

23. The goal isn't to take on the GOP it's to siphon off independents from voting for Democrats.

[Skittles]

31. I think that would backfire

I think the people looking up to Elon are most likely selfish fucking assholes like him.

[cstanleytech]

34. Well, how many thought Trump wouldn't win either? I mean there are a lot of morons out there that voted for him again.

That shows that they can be swayed and a third party could do that especially since Musk controls Twitter which he will surely use to push it.

[Skittles]

38. Musk might take some MAGAts

but certainly not most

and progressives DESPISE his fascist ass

[travelingthrulife]

41. I agree. This will be non-stop trashing of Democrats.

[SheltieLover]

26. Please proceed...

[slightlv]

27. I want musk to do what he demanded that federal workers do...

I want him to detail an outline of 5 actions he took to get trump installed in the white house.

The I want that republican attorney... the one who talks so slow as to be really hard to listen to... but whose name escapes me right now. I have so much respect for him... as a patriot and an individual... I want him to go after Musk for election fraud and interference.

[LudwigPastorius]

33. "...but, I will be around for 40+ years..."

Sure, Leon...only if some of those drugs you are taking are preservatives.

[Xolodno]

37. The two party system is way too entrenched.

It's designed that way. With that said, there is room for spoilers who can knock out the GOP if they are disillusioned. George H W Bush found that out the hard way. They either voted for Perot or just didn't show up.

[RussBLib]

39. "the middle" is around 36%, not 80%

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