Also from Politico:

Libertarian National Committee Chair Steven Nekhaila has a pitch for billionaire Elon Musk: Join us, and don’t fight the uphill battle of launching a third party.

“Making a new third party would be a mistake,” Nekhaila told Score on Tuesday. “The Libertarian Party is the most set-up party to be the dissident subversive party.”…

So why exactly should Musk forgo his own effort and instead join with the Libertarians? To Nekhaila it’s pretty simple. They have ballot access in almost every state, which many recent third-party efforts have failed to secure.

“There’s no way an independent or a new party can actually do this,” he said. “It takes years and years and years, and the infrastructure and everything else. It’s not a fun process.”…

The Libertarians are not alone in their effort to court Musk. No Labels, the political group that pushed for a centrist presidential ticket to avoid a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, is also interested in talking to Musk, said Dan Webb, a leader of the group.

“What he’s talking about is that partisanship in the two parties has created so many huge problems that the country isn’t working, as evidenced by what’s going on in Congress right now,” Webb said, adding that the group is “trying to find out a way to reach out to him and create a line of communication.”