Elon Musk announced the creation of his new party named with a lot of originality « America Party ». He plans to focus his efforts on two or three Senate seats and eight to ten House of Représentatives seats, for the 2026 midterm elections. This news infuriated Trump.
There are already enough Trump-disappointed people on the right wing of the electorate, for Musk to go and steal a good chunk of votes from the Président’s party, plus a few from Democrats who don’t want to vote socialist.
What allows someone to be elected senator or representative in the american electoral system ? The first-past-the-post polls forces voters to immediately decide on their preferred candidate. This is why the political offer in the United States is so poor, reduced to two parties – blue or red, the donkey, the elephant – with a lot of ideological similarities.
But with VERY BIG money (a few one-million-dollars lotteries, like during the presidential election) and with X, his social network, Elon can become a kingmaker, like the earl of Warwick during the War of the Two-Roses (1455-1485).
With the same voting system, in England, three parties have more or less coexisted since the birth of democracy. It’s not a chaos, as Trump think it is. This is just a new balance. A balance that risks stealing his majority. It could be the beginning of the end of Trump’s kingdom. But remember, Elon, Warwick was assassinated by his former friend, King Edward, ex-duke of York, whose nickname was Edward Trump because he liked playing poker.