According to a new poll, 57% of male Republicans say they are likely to support Elon Musk’s “America Party”

Almost half of voters said they are likely to support a new political party proposed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to fresh polling.

A Quantus Insights survey released Wednesday found that 40% of voters said they would be likely to back Musk’s “America Party,” which aims to serve voters disillusioned with both Republicans and Democrats. Musk shared the poll’s results on X, calling the results “Encouraging.”

Musk first pitched a new political party in early June after he clashed with Donald Trump over the GOP’s multi-trillion-dollar tax and spending bill.

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    Make sure you lie to all of your Republican friends about how excited you are for a real party where real Americans can meet in the middle!

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    57% of male Republican voters. Uhh. Sounds good. Large enough to tear a painful bite out of the GOP, but not enough to matter.

    And I hope that by now, Democrats know enough not to vote for him.

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    Almost half of voters said they are likely to support a new political party proposed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to fresh polling.

    Horseshit. No way is Elon’s popularity that high, after he so effectively alienated himself from both US parties. I’m guessing the poll just asked about supporting A third party, not Elon’s third party.

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      Asking people a theoretical question about whether they would support a third party doesn’t give you any useful information. It doesn’t mean they’ll support whatever you make, nor does it mean you (in this case Musk) have what it takes to build a party from scratch. Including just basic human qualities required, ike patience and perseverance.

      This whole story isn’t even worth following.

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      Both parties suck and are ruining the country. Here’s an idea, let’s take the jackass that jumped around with a chainsaw and sawed away people’s benefits before giving two Seig Heils at the worse of the two horrible parties, let’s go with his new party.

      What a joke.

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      It’s not his popularity.

      1. Republicans dont really like Trump, they just want to “own the libs”, so a new “conservative” party appeals to them.
      2. Democrats won’t vote for the new party, but realize that it will destroy the Republican party.
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    Fuck Elon Musk. Fuck Elon Musk’s Doge party with stolen info from the US Gov’t about taxpayers. He just wants to pull an RFK for the 2028 elections and I guarantee a new exec order will come forth giving Trump some bullshit advantage that plays right off this because it’s the plan all along.

    Fuck Elon Musk

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    I support your sorry ass getting deported to south sudan. Not from south sudan? IDC.

    Muskrat is all talk. The fucker got drumpf elected. I do not care if they’ve had a falling out. He talks and talks about releasing Epstein info then does nothing.

    🖕🤬🖕

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    Split the Democrats at the same time for a proper anti-establishment levelling of the playing field, then start talking in ways that highlight progressive values.

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    Ok, call me crazy, but hear me out: this is good and we should encourage it.

    One fascist party gets all the fascists aligned. Multiple fascist parties split them up. Suddenly their 51% majority is 25% and 26%. We should be fostering the infighting and splitting of the party. We should welcome its own destruction from within.

    I’ll only believe it when I see it, but this could theoretically be the beginning of the end for a two party system. If done right we could end up with 4 or 5 legitimate parties (including splitting Democrats up and getting a true labor party)

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          One of the biggest hurdles would be, since we still have a FPTP system, mutually agreeing when to withdraw and support the other party’s candidate in races where the fascist candidate(s) seem poised to win. Especially since the nature of politics means that both sides would be looking to screw each other over… and the Dems have a lot of experience in screwing over political rivals.

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            I think for a third party to even exist viably, we need ranked choice voting. If Elon wants this party to actually exist, he needs RCV himself. Unless he’s just planning to try and consume all of the moderate voters, which is a good bet too based on his ego, unfortunately.

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      Never gonna have more than two parties as long as we still use “first past the post” voting.

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        A new “Republican” party would necessarily have to argue for vote reform in order to make gains. We might be able to spin this into a bipartisan issue. We make it their own self interest to introduce ranked choice voting.

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        Even though two parties is the equilibrium state that’s always reached, a new party can replace one of the two if it has massive enough support (the other method is for a contingent faction to take over one of the existing two as we saw with maga). In our system, having it funded by the richest person in the world who also has a large following already is one of the few ways a new party could feasibly get to that level.

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      There’s 0 way a labor party would take root here with how much of our population falls for moneyed propaganda. Still, more choices is always better when it comes to these political parties.

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        I am not so sure - i think that many many young folk are both more open to it and are disenchanted with the democrat party - and this will continue to grow with the old guard insisting on shooting themselves in the foot by stubbornly resisting Mamdani in new york immediatelt after 3 “Vote Blue No Matter Who” campaigns for the in the last few presidential elections.

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        You act as if unions are non-existent and Bernie Sanders has no following… Unlikely? Sure. But impossible? Nope. Literally half the Dem talk since the election has been about how much Dems feel disenfranchised by their own party. Have you been paying any attention?

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          Over half of the population took a voting action not in their best interest. I know everywhere should be unionized and politicians like Bernie should be the norm, not the “fringe”.

          But to act like the average voter is rational after this election? Have YOU been paying attention? FFS a quarter of Americans actually think this admin is a good job. A rather sad portion of our population is easily swayed by propaganda and the moment a real workers party comes out? We’ll look at how they treated Mamdani, AOC and Bernie like little league.

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            The fact that you call Bernie “the fringe” and dismiss him, his recent rallys, the Philadelphia sanitation union strike, and so much more shows you just want to be defeatist and spout strawmen. I guess AOC doesn’t exist either. So have fun being miserable I guess.

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              If Bernie is not fringe, could you point out any others who care for the working class as senators outside of AOC? Fringe kind of means large minority.

              Also, I mentioned AOC so im not sure how my comment made you think she doesn’t exist.

              Are you okay man?

              I can tell you care about getting real leftists in, so I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

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    Elon is a petulant child who knows nothing. That party will only attract people like him, which will be no different than the libertarian / tea party / republicans. This too will fail.

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    more reality tv bullshit

    musk is a fucking muppet

    better than trump, who’s also a muppet?

    NO. it’s muppets fighting muppets, like Team America: World Police, except irl