Running for Governor under Elon Musk's New Party [The America Party]

I need your help because a lot of people

are saying, "Kevin, you ran for governor

in 2021 under a really common sense

platform in the middle trying to appeal

to the 80% of that middle group of

Americans. Simple things like financial

education at schools, solving

homelessness, and actually trying to

spend less money in a reasonable common

sense way for government, killing things

like the highspeed rail in California."

Well, now we've got Elon Musk with the

America Party. He's technically said

he's filed for it. We're still waiting

for official filing documents on the

American Party. But the America Party

per Elon Musk is this idea that we're

going to promote uh a you know neutral

common sense approach center home base

for people who feel politically

homeless. And honestly, I kind of have

to say I felt pretty politically

homeless because when I ran for governor

in 20 uh 21, I always told everyone,

people like, "Oh, what party are you

in?" I'm like, "It's 5149. Does it

really matter where that 2% is?" It's

it's about the middle ground and and

trying to do the best for most people.

That's not really how American politics

works. Mostly because there's no funding

for third-party style candidates and

they don't get the kind of recognition

that uh you would anticipate uh good

ideas from a third party would get. It's

partly because of party registration and

and sort of the way the electoral

college rewards sort of this two-party

system. But this is interesting because

Elon Musk uh quote tweeted this. He

says, "Is this the America Party

platform?" So, I like to call it TAP,

TAP, the America Party platform. Uh, and

the idea is reduce debt, uh, responsible

spending only, modernize the military

with AI and robotics. Uh, pro tech,

accelerate to win in AI, less regulation

across the board, but especially in

energy, free speech, pro- nationalist,

and centralist policies everywhere else.

Now, what I think is this is a good sort

of starting point. There are a lot of

things that you could sort of evolve

this in. I'm not sure that sort of on

like a state basis it's so important to

focus on, you know, AI, robotics, and

military. This feels very

Terminatoresque, especially if like you

run for governor in California. It, you

know, Terminator 1 and two reference,

you know, the big event in 2029 in LA,

you know. So, so there's definitely some

concern around this and and frankly, I

don't think we're we're so advanced yet

in in uh humanoid robotics as as maybe

we hope, but it will be coming. But

things that you could add to this that

Elon Musk has previously talked about as

well is this idea of reinvigorating

nuclear energy in America, sustainable

energy in in and sustainable electric

grids. Another thing, too, is Elon's

considering building a solar factory in

in America. Uh so that way we could take

advantage of made in America solar tax

credits. And these are things that, you

know, potentially Elon could do in a

state like California if he actually had

a governor with a coonus to say, "Hey,

you know, maybe bring Elon back home and

go back to bringing reasonableness to

America." So, I like this pro tech,

protrade school, pro- like teaching

people how to make money, pro- financial

education. These are policies from our

2021 campaign, many of which align sort

of with what Elon's going with here.

Now, the problem with this is in order

for a third party to actually make a

difference, you need people to change

their voter registration. Uh, and I

don't know how realistic that is. And

so, that's where, you know, I want to

see what what everybody's opinion is on

this. But I think there's an interesting

argument to say that if well, well,

here's how things work in California.

For example, in California, you need

75,000 people to register for the

America Party. basically by December in

order to qualify the America party for

uh or a candidate under the the America

party to qualify for the primary uh-

which is next next year, middle of next

year, the summer of next year, we have

the primary in California, which in

California, it's first two uh or or I

should say top two, it's not really

first two past the post. Uh it's top two

candidates uh regardless of party

uh end up winning in California. So, in

California, in a governor race in 2026,

you could actually have a third party

candidate competing against the Democrat

or Republican, but you could also have

two Democrats competing against each

other or two Republicans competing

against each other. So, interestingly,

the uh this idea of the America Party,

which you know, Elon's focus isn't

necessarily governor. his Elon's focus

is more on uh sensitive sort of uh swing

uh Senate and and House seats, but a

governor race can enable

the attention and and uh coordination

and funding that these seats might

require not only in state legislatures

but also then in federal races. So, I

think it's very interesting to consider

that could you have the America party or

governors running under the America

Party? Uh, I think it's a really like

it's a long shot, but there are some

benefits to potentially people running

under the America Party for Governor

because even though it's a long shot,

you are able to become a voice uh for

the politically homeless

and

you could win.

And that's because of the way the the

sort of election system functions in

California that you don't necessarily

have to be a Democrat or Republican. It

hasn't happened before. Uh and the other

issue is what if Elon flip-flops, right?

So you probably the way you probably do

it is you'd run under, you know, the D

or R label uh until TAP actually gets

the registration that it needs. That's

probably the way to do it. And you you

become a voice for the politically

homeless, the people who say, you know

what, like think about what what a

politically homeless person is. Uh

someone who uh hates uh that we had an

incompetent uh you know, president, it's

it's sad, right? but someone who also uh

also hates the flip-flopping of Trump

on, you know, tariffs or or or war

promises, right? Or even like Epstein

promises, right? So what you're really

doing is you're looking for somebody who

says, "Hey, look, you know, this stuff

pisses us off on our leadership, but

what we really want is a focus on

financial education, helping younger

people get ahead, help people with with

trades, and actually have the the

ability to make money and build wealth

over their career. How about actually

having affordable housing by building

more homes rather than, you know, having

incomerestricted properties that only

help certain people or these insane

policies uh like what you're seeing in

New York, you know, New York uh and and

the you know, Mom Dami Mom Donnie uh

drama is uh is is a disgusting excuse

for Democrats in my opinion. It's like

it shows just how extreme Democrats are

going in sort of contrast to what you

get on the Republican side which is

basically all in on MAGA. And so this

middle ground is really lost. However,

all this said, you do have a problem

with Elon. You do have an Elon problem

remains. The Elon problem is, you know,

do people look at Elon as a loon, right?

So, you know, I I personally think uh

don't bet against uh Elon. Uh and

frankly he's probably at a low point

right now which sort of opens up this

question to like you know does it make

sense to uh for example run for governor

under the America party and bet on Elon

at sort of a low point or uh you know

and and then really try to become that

voice for the politically homeless even

though it's a long shot uh could be

done. Uh so it has potential and I think

it's really interesting to consider as a

possibility because first of all nobody

else has indicated you know this idea of

sort of jumping on the America party

idea but I actually think it's it's

perfect because it at least gives that

middle American a voice. That's just my

opinion and I think it's something

that's uh uh that that's missing.

Somebody here in the chat writes Trump

Kevin hasn't read Trump's books. Uh

wrong. I've read almost all of his

books. I've even read Ivanka's books,

The Trump Card, and I read Art of the

Deal multiple times before Trump got

into presidency. Very interesting. So,

that's another thing that I always think

is interesting too about uh politics and

speeches. Everybody can kind of like

throw out their comments or their

opinions. But what people really should

be thinking about doing is asking

questions because if you ask questions

like, "Hey, Kevin, have you read Trump's

books? I could tell you." And then you

wouldn't have to speculate and make

yourself look like a fool.

Uh, so, uh, Nathan here writes, "Train

wreck Elon is not as talented as Kevin

Trump." Well, thanks for saying that.

Uh, I also would would would never try

to downplay the innovations and the

success and the genius of SpaceX and the

things that have occurred at Tesla and

the innovation and electric vehicles at

Tesla. I actually really respect Elon a

lot. I think his social IQ and political

IQ I IQ maybe more of an EQ is on the

low side,

but uh you know I I it's you know you

got to give him credit where credit is

due. I think he's a brilliant person. I

think what Elon really needs is a

friend. Uh like I I honestly believe and

I know this is hard for a lot of people

to believe, but I honestly believe he's

he's lonely.

uh and you know there's there's no real

family dynamic and it's hard for him to

have a friend because a lot of his

friends care about you know money or

politics or whatever. Uh and it makes

sense because usually in order to make

money in America you kind of just have

to shill one belief and hope you're

right and then that way you look like a

hero when you're right. Uh and and

people usually don't really care for

nuance. They just want like you know

what's the current hot thing. And so

there are there are definitely I I mean

there's there's definitely room for this

sort of nuance in politics. I think it's

very interesting. So uh yeah. Well

anyway, let me know what y'all think uh

in the comments on that one. I think

it's an interesting topic.

Why not advertise these things that you

told us here? I feel like nobody else

knows about this.

We'll we'll try a little advertising and

see how it goes.

Congratulations, man. You have done so

much. People love you. People look up to

you. Kevin Praath there, financial

analyst and YouTuber. Meet Kevin. Always

great to get your take.