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America Party: Elon Musk connects with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang; Discusses the roadmap for party success

Elon Musk (left) and Andrew Yang (right) (AP image)

According to the Fox News Agency, Elon Musk has spoken with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang as he moves forward with a plan to form a new political party in the United States.Tesla and SpaceX’s billionaire CEO Musk recently announced on his platform X that he launched a new political party, “America Party”, which was aimed at challenging that he called America’s “One-Party system”. He expects to field candidates in next year’s mid -term elections as an alternative to two main American political parties.The conversation between Musk and Yang was first reported by Politico and later confirmed by Fox News. According to media reports quoted by Fox News, both talked about Musk’s plans and what would be necessary to start a successful third party.Referring to Democratic and Republican parties, Yang said in a statement to Fox News, “I am excited for anyone who said in a statement to Fox News, referring to Democratic and Republican parties. “And I make someone realize what the way looks like.”During the 2020 presidential election, Yang attracted national attention, promoting ideas such as universal basic income. Although he did not win the Democratic nomination, he created a strong following. After a unsuccessful bid for the Mayor of New York City in 2021, he openly criticized the two-sided system and launched the forward party, an independent political group, the target for nationwide voting.Yang and Musk have known each other for a long time. In 2019, Musk supported Yang’s President to run and a significant part of Yang’s campaign positively spoke positively about universal basic income.According to Yang, he and Musk are in touch directly and through other channels. He has said that forward party welcomes people of many backgrounds and looks extent in the way of Musk as a way to draw attention to the need for a new party.Yang said in June, “People have come to the party ahead of all different regions of life and different ideologies.” He said more than 5.3 million users voted on Musk’s X post about starting a new party, with about 81% of the views. “Elon has a very important, the following and megaphone, and you can see that with the number of people voting on their posts about starting the third party. It’s about 5.3 million votes, with 81 percent, yes, it’s time to form a new political party,” Yang said, as reported by Politico.In response to Musk’s announcement, Yang posted on X: “In a quarrel between the man who enabled space rockets and electric cars and the man who brands a fake university, I will bet on the East,”Musk has recently begun to follow Yang on X, suggesting that the two may continue to discuss as Musk tries to create a pace for his new party.

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