Could Elon Musk's Third Party Ever Win In America? | Ep. 39
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
📍Can the two-party system finally crumbling? Today, we dive into the political shockwave Elon Musk just triggered by announcing the American Party—a bold attempt to unite the 80% of Americans stuck in the middle. David explores the long history of third-party failures, the rigged systems that keep them down, and whether Musk can break the mold. From corrupt NGOs and insider political deals to the case for term limits and a new revolution, this one pulls no punches.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Elon announces The American Party
06:04 - The American vs European Political System
20:33 - History of American Political Parties
25:58 - History of Third Parties in America
32:01 - Do Americans want a third party?
40:48 - Can Elon create a successful third party?
43:04 - Why America needs a change
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Should America have more than a two-party system? |
| 0:07.8 | Well, Elon Musk and 5,630,000 people believe we should. |
| 0:14.3 | Today on the David Rutherford show. |
| 0:17.5 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:19.0 | I am super fired up to be back with you. And today is a question that I think most people |
| 0:24.8 | have been on and off about since the history of political parties in the United States. And that's |
| 0:32.4 | whether or not we are done with a two-party system. Now, all of this is coming to fruition after Elon Musk posted on June 5th, after his little, what would you call that, Jordi? |
| 0:47.8 | What would you call that? |
| 0:48.6 | A little spat he had with the president, which came a little freak out. |
| 0:54.0 | A little freak out. |
| 0:59.3 | A crash out. That's what they say. Yeah, a little crash out spat that took place on Twitter after the one big, beautiful bill numbers came out. And what happened as a result is Elon Musk presented |
| 1:08.9 | a poll on X, which by far is the number one new site in the world. |
| 1:14.9 | And the number one site in many, I don't even know, 100 plus countries around the world. |
| 1:20.7 | And he asked this, is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle. |
| 1:29.7 | And he had everybody vote. And guess what? Five million, 630,775 people voted. Now, guaranteed, probably these were people from around the world. These were not all Americans. |
| 1:48.1 | These were, you know, probably who knows who is voting. |
| 1:52.2 | Many people maybe tried to vote multiple times or bot farms voted. |
| 1:54.0 | Who knows what voted. But that's the biggest sample size that I think I've pretty much ever seen in this. |
| 2:01.9 | And the result was on July 4th, Elon Musk announced that he was going to start a new political |
| 2:08.6 | party and call it the American Party. |
| 2:11.5 | Creative. |
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