Can billionaire Elon Musk build a third party that lasts? We look at the odds, the obstacles, and the history stacked against ...

Musk’s outrage over Trump’s signature legislation fuels a pledge to rejoin the political fray, despite the wounds he’s taken and the poor electoral record of mavericks.

Elon Musk launched the "America Party" after a viral poll on X, challenging what he calls a corrupt two-party system after Trump signed the $3.3 trillion "big, beautiful bill." ...

Elon Musk floated the idea of a new political party as his rapidly escalating feud with President Trump reached a tipping point -- with more than 80% of the millions who voted wanting change.

In a 2024 Gallup poll, 58% U.S. adults said a third major party is needed in the United States because the Republican and Democratic parties "do such a poor job" of representing the American people.

It hasn’t happened since the Republican Party burst on the scene in the 1850s. Even then, Americans didn’t get a third party so much as a replacement for the Whigs.

A third political party, the Republican Party, formed to oppose the expansion of slavery into the new territories acquired by the United States in the Mexican War in 1848.

The idea of a centrist third party has been a bit of a running joke in recent years. Every cycle, someone writes an op-ed calling for a moderate bid from someone like Joe Manchin, it gets widely ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a moderate Republican from Alaska, has a reputation for bucking her party. She sometimes broke away from President Trump on key issues during his first term like the push to ...

A Gallup poll last year found that 58 percent of U.S. adults agree that a third party is needed in the U.S. because the Republican and Democratic parties “do such a poor job” of representing ...