Billionaire Elon Musk says he's forming a new political party in protest President Trump's sweeping tax cuts and spending bill. NPR looks why many third parties have failed in recent U.S. history.
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Ashley Lopez is a political correspondent for NPR based in Austin, Texas. She joined NPR in May 2022. Prior to NPR, Lopez spent more than six years as a health care and politics reporter for KUT, Austin's public radio station. Before that, she was a political reporter for NPR Member stations in Florida and Kentucky. Lopez is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and grew up in Miami, Florida.