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.”
