Elon Musk's newly-launched independent political party, the "America Party," poses a real risk of being a spoiler for Republicans in the 2026 midterms, according to a new poll by Echelon Insights. The post NEW POLL: Elon Musk’s America Party Would Swing the 2026 Election From GOP to Democrats on Generic Ballot first appeared on Mediaite.

Elon Musk recently launched the America Party. By learning from Ross Perot's failed third party campaign in 1992, Musk's party could succeed.

“It is about time that the common sense man and the business man and the farmers and bankers of this country get together and formed a third political party,” William H. Woodin, the industrialist and future Treasury Secretary, told The Wall Street Journal on April 6, 1922.

A new poll found the likelihood of an America Party candidate winning an election is slim. It could, however, draw votes away from Republican candidates, hurting their chances as well.

LinkedIn cofounder and top Democratic donor Reid Hoffman said he's "very sympathetic" to Musk's core cause of reining in deficits.

The world’s greatest innovator has set his sights on America’s biggest problem: the two-party system that is ripping our social fabric, bankrupting