The Senate Republican fears that Alone Musk’s beef with President Trump may become a wild-card factor that may spend them on seats in 2026 if Musk followed his threat to form a new political party to compete with GOP.
GOP MPs noted that third-party candidates have swung the President and Senate race in the past and worry that Musk’s dialect is likely to peel over Republican than democratic voters in the major race to establish “America Party”.
Musk, if he moves forward with his plans, is expected to expect the federal debt to reduce a major match of his new party, an issue traditionally appealing to conservative voters. Tech Mogul has also threatened to support primary challenges against self-drank Republican fiscal conservatives who voted for a large beautiful bill act of Trump.
The billionaire created a major political headache for the Republican last month by trashing Trump’s megabil as a “disgusting disgusting” and warned that it would “destroy millions of jobs in the US.”
While GOP MPs suspect that the US party candidates may actually win seats in the Congress, they worry out-opt, third-party candidates may play spiiler roles and swing the close race for Democrats.
Sen Ron Johnson (R-WIS.) Warned that Musk could be spent in the Republican Integrated Control of the White House and the Congress, which he used to cut taxes this year to cut down, medicid spends and border security between other achievements.
Asked about the formation of the American party’s musc, Johnson offered a blunt answer: “If he wants to ensure that never to return to a prepandemic level to spend, our budget is never to be balanced, it will be a good thing.”
In other words, Johnson feels that the Musk Republican will air the candidates and future control of policy -making.
“He will divide our party,” he said. “We are really worried about some people, do not democrats.”
Johnson said that it was “clear” that Musk’s political party caused more damage to the Republican with the Democrat and warned that fellow Republican needed to take the loan more seriously before the mid -term election.
He said, “We do our work better in reducing the expenditure in our party.”
Last month, Quinipiyak University Poll of 1,265 registered voters across the country found that 62 percent Republican had a favorable opinion of Kasturi while 29 percent of independent and only 3 percent of Democrats saw them favorably.
Third-party candidates have bedwear Republicans in Montana, especially in the major Senate races in Montana, where some Republicans blamed Libeterian Rick Brakeners and Dan Cox for helping former Sen John Tester (D) win in 2018 and 2012.
Libeterian candidate Phil Anderson and America’s first party candidate Thomas Legar may have a potential victory to Republican Senate candidate Eric Howd on Sen Tammy Baldwin (D) in the 2024 Visconsin Senate race.
Sen Jerry Moran (R-Kan), a former chairman of the National Republican Setnorial Committee, said the third-party candidates have “affected the results of the elections” but said that “Third party has never become a majority party.”
He said that the “personal nature” of the recent quarrel between Kasturi and Trump may seem to many voters that Musk’s push for a new party “is more an individual vengeance than a political charge.”
Moran said that this is something to worry because “politics is a changing sea of voters, and someone needs to pay attention to trends.
“People have opportunities to catch voters in ways that you can’t think even today,” he said.
While the third-party candidates have often failed to get out of the support of single-nodes on election days, Musk’s capacity to insert millions of dollars-or in one race or in one election, can make musk-supported candidates immediately.
“Money is an important factor. Elon Musk has funding and financing campaigns and capacity.
“Money is often a fixation factor in completing it,” he said.
According to a record filed with the Federal Election Commission, Musk spent more than $ 290 million in the 2024 election.
Retired Sen Thom Tilis (R), whose northern Carolina Senate seat has been “toss-up” in 2026, stated that the third party candidature damages the Republican.
“Each time this has been tried earlier, it is generally, in most cases, it has damaged the Republican results,” he said.
He said that it would be better to bring about the changes that he wants to work within a two-sided system.
A Republican Senator, who requested oblivion, said Kasturi “could be like a ross parot and a spoiler in the election.” In 1992, Parot ran as an independent candidate and won 19 percent of the votes. Some Republican convicted him in other states for helping former President Clinton to win Georgia, Ohio and Montana.
Republican said Musk’s anger in Trump is wrong and he is working out of disappointment on his intercourse as a special government employee in Trump administration.
The senator said, “I think there were unrealistic expectations about what the government can do and when you can do the government in the size of our federal government, how fast it can move forward,” the Senator said, trying to explain why Musk now wants to take Trump and Republican Party.
Musk had last month threatened to support primary challenges against Republican, running to the office on pledges to cut federal deficit and then voted last week for Trump’s “big, beautiful bills”.
He said that he should “hang his head with shame” and swear: “and they would lose their primary next year if this is the last thing on this earth.”
The Senate majority leader John Thyun (Rs. D) admitted on Wednesday that Musk-supported candidates could vote from Republican if he is going to a US party. But he argued that it is difficult to predict political influence and Democrats may also lose votes.
“This can ensure,” the Theuns said whether Musk could have an impact on the Senate race next year. “We have seen that in history where third parties have affected the results in national campaigns, but my perception is probably some attracts something [votes] From both.
“I think there are many disappointed democrats who think that his party has gone far to the left. So, we will see. It’s very early to tell, but it’s an independent country,” he said.
Sen John Cornin (R-Texas), who faces a competitive primary next year, was not eager to chat about Musk’s potential role in the Senate race, only looking at the musk is free to do what he wants.
“This is an independent country. It will not be the first, I think we had a third-party [candidate] When Ross Parot ran away, “he said.” They do not require permission from anyone to do it. ,
The Democratic Strategist, Steve Jording, said Musk could have an external impact on the future control of the Congress by focusing on a handful of major Senate and House Race.
“He can recruit people under the American party and give them a complete fund, and they are going to be competitive,” he said.
“If Elon Musk’s goal is to pay to Trump, then they just have to do the 15 house race, a half dozen Senate races-spend $ 30 million in every Senate race, he can carry $ 15 million in each House race, he can take both the House and Senate,” arguing that the well-funded candidates in the major states can affect the consequences if they do not win.
Jarding said “If you have money, you can be competitive.”
He said that if the musk-supported third-party candidates win the seats, they can become a swing block in a narrowly divided home.
“This man can fundamentally change this next election, I don’t care what he says to his party. He just has to write a check,” he said.
