Elon Musk says he's created new America Party, in challenge to Trump's Republicans
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Musk, the world's richest person and Trump's biggest political donor in the 2024 election, had a bitter falling out with the president after leading the Republican's effort to slash spending and cut federal jobs as head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
'When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,' the SpaceX and Tesla boss posted social media.
'Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.'
Musk cited a poll – posted on X, the social media platform he owns – on Friday, US Independence Day – in which he asked whether respondents 'want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system' that has dominated US politics for some two centuries.
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The yes-or-no survey received more than 1.2 million responses.
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