As Elon Musk moves forward with forming a third party in hopes of rocking the nation’s longstanding two-party system, the world’s richest person is reaching out to a one-time presidential candidate who has started his own independent party.<\/p>\n
Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX who spent the first four months of President Donald Trump’s second administration as a special White House advisor steering the recently created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), spoke with Andrew Yang, Fox News has confirmed.<\/p>\n
A source familiar with the conversation said that the two discussed Musk\u2019s push to create the ‘America Party,’ which Musk aims to field some candidates in next year’s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
‘I\u2019m excited for anyone who wants to move on from the duopoly,’ Yang said in a statement to Fox News. ‘And I\u2019m happy to help give someone a sense of what the path looks like.’ News of the conversation was first reported by Politico.<\/p>\n
Yang grabbed national attention in the 2020 election cycle, as the entrepreneur went from an extreme longshot to briefly being a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. <\/p>\n
But Yang soured on the two-party system after an unsuccessful 2021 run for New York City mayor. He then formed the independent Forward Party, which has been recognized in a handful of states and aims to eventually gain ballot access from coast to coast.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Yang and Musk are far from strangers. Musk in 2019 supported Yang’s unsuccessful presidential bid. <\/p>\n
Musk became the top donor of the 2024 election cycle<\/u>, dishing out nearly $300 million in support of Trump’s bid through America PAC, a mostly Musk-funded super PAC aligned with Trump.<\/p>\n
Trump named Musk to steer DOGE soon after the November election, and the president repeatedly praised Musk during his headline-making and controversial tenure at the cost-cutting effort.<\/p>\n
But a feud between Musk and Trump broke out days after Musk left the White House in late May, as Musk dubbed the administration’s massive landmark spending bill – which Trump called his ‘big, beautiful bill’ – a ‘disgusting abomination,’ which he said would sink the nation into unsustainable debt.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Musk also argued that Trump would not have won last year’s presidential election without all of his support. <\/p>\n
Musk announced<\/u> the launch of the ‘America Party’ on his social media platform X on Saturday, a day after Trump signed the sweeping domestic policy package into law. The measure narrowly passed the Senate and House last week along near party-line votes in the Republican-controlled chambers.<\/p>\n
Trump on Sunday ridiculed Musk’s move.<\/p>\n