{"id":60594,"date":"2025-08-21T11:18:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60594"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:18:51","slug":"it-is-being-reported-that-elon-musk-has-changed-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60594","title":{"rendered":"It Is Being Reported That Elon Musk Has Changed His Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/20\/us-news\/elon-musk-pledges-to-start-new-political-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> posted an article updating Elon Musk&#8217;s plans to create a third party. Although I often share his frustration with today&#8217;s two political parties, I am glad that he is moving away from that idea. It would be at least ten years before a new political party to become competitive, and I am hopeful that the current leadership in the Republican party is moving toward sanity making a new party unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Elon Musk is reportedly putting the brakes on launching his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/05\/us-news\/elon-musk-says-hes-creating-new-america-party\/\">new political party<\/a> in order to maintain ties with prominent Republicans \u2014 especially Vice President JD Vance, whom the billionaire is eyeing to back in 2028.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/06\/us-news\/musk-looks-to-start-third-political-party-during-trump-feud\/\">Musk<\/a> had vowed that his\u00a0\u201cAmerica Party\u201d would challenge the two-party system, but he told those close to him that he\u2019d rather focus on his businesses than pull voters away from his Republican allies in Washington, the Wall Street Journal reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Tesla CEO is particularly keen on maintaining ties with Vance, who, it has been widely speculated, will inherit the MAGA movement after President Trump completes his second term.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Trump and Musk appear to have squashed their beef \u2014 at least for now \u2014 as Musk has refrained of late from criticizing the president or other Republican politicians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Vance could massively benefit from Musk\u2019s money and influence if he\u2019s tapped to succeed Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>When reached for comment by the Journal, Vance\u2019s team pointed to an interview from earlier this month with conservative outlet the Gateway Pundit in which the vice president said it would be bad for conservatives to break with MAGA and hoped Musk would \u201ccome back into the fold\u201d by the midterm elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Musk, without commenting further on the Journal\u2019s report, posted on X, \u201cNothing @WSJ says should ever be thought of as true.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, where are the spending cuts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, The New York Post posted an article updating Elon Musk&#8217;s plans to create a third party. Although I often share his frustration with today&#8217;s two political parties, I am glad that he is moving away from that idea. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60594\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11848,18404,365,8321,17773],"class_list":["post-60594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elon-musk","tag-maga-movement","tag-republicans","tag-the-new-york-post","tag-vice-president-jd-vance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60596,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60594\/revisions\/60596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}