Jenna Bednar, a political scientist at the University of Michigan, echoed these concerns in an interview with The TimesofIndia.com: "“In the United States' electoral system, third parties face nearly insurmountable organizational, institutional, and cultural barriers... Mr. Musk likes to build big and has ambitions for a national party. I don't see it becoming a serious rival to the two parties."
She added, however, that Musk "could be enormously successful if he uses his wealth to support primary challengers... He could significantly reshape the Republican Party from within by freeing centrist Republicans from their fears of Mr. Trump." Bednar also cautioned that "there is a high likelihood that Mr. Musk's attention would wane; the earliest primaries are not until March 2026. He may move on to other projects long before then."
