Elon Musk’s proposed America Occasion is already attracting the eye of the ultra-rich

Only a day after former White Home advisor Elon Musk claimed on X that he is making a new political party within the US, some deep-pocketed figures have supplied assist and potential curiosity. Replying to an X publish that mentioned the America Occasion would supply “independence from the two-party system,” billionaire Mark Cuban and funding banker Anthony Scaramucci each replied to Musk, offering some attainable subsequent steps.

After celebrating the America Occasion announcement publish with emojis, Cuban mentioned that he works with the Middle for Aggressive Democracy and will assist get Musk’s social gathering on ballots. Scaramucci additionally responded on X, saying he would “like to fulfill to debate.”

Scaramucci beforehand served because the White Home communications director in 2017 throughout Trump’s first time period earlier than being dismissed 10 days in. The previous Trump ally has since crossed to the opposite facet of the political aisle and supported each Joe Biden and Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential campaigns. Equally, Cuban beforehand supported Harris and was even tied to the Democratic candidate as a possible working mate. Whereas there are nonetheless loads of questions on Musk’s proposed political social gathering that comes after a hostile fallout with Trump, the Tesla CEO’s publish on X indicated that it might deal with taking up “two or three Senate seats and eight to 10 Home districts.”

It is unclear if Musk has already filed the mandatory paperwork to formally set up the America Occasion. The latest filings with the Federal Election Fee present a number of paperwork that reference Musk’s new social gathering, however the veracity of those is questionable, and so they sit alongside a slew of obvious joke filings, together with the “American Meme Occasion,” “The Diddy Occasion” and “The DOGE Occasion.”