Musk announces new political party in U.S.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced Saturday that "the America Party is formed” to give back freedom, following an online poll he launched earlier in the week that showed strong support for a new political force. "Independence Day is the perfect time to ask” if the country “want independence from the two-party system," Musk wrote in Friday's post announcing the poll.

More than 65 percent of the 1.2 million respondents backed the idea. Musk said the America Party will laser-focus on two or three Senate seats and eight to 10 House districts, a strategy he believes could tip control in a narrowly divided Congress.