No Labels 2024 Run

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Democratic Senator Joe Manchin and former Republican Governors Larry Hogan and Jon Huntsman have been mentioned as potential No Labels candidates[17][18] (though Huntsman has denied interest in a presidential run).[19] As of January 2024, the organization has ballot access in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware[20], Florida, Hawaii, Maine,[21] Maryland,[22] Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, South Dakota, and Utah.[21] Joe Lieberman announced in an interview with Fox News Sunday on August 27, 2023, that the organization plans to hold a "bipartisan nominating convention" in Dallas, Texas in April 2024.[23]

'No Labels' has now officially become a political party in Kansas, paving the way for a third-party candidate​

• "No Labels" has officially been recognized as a minor political party in Kansas.
• The party has now secured at least 12 spots on ballots for the 2024 election.
• Researchers previously noted that a third-party candidate would likely hurt Biden more than Trump.

As of Wednesday, "No Labels" has officially been recognized as a political party in Kansas, further paving the way for a candidate to make a third-party presidential run this cycle.


According to a press release from the Kansas Secretary of State's office, the party met the requirements to become a minor party in the state after submitting the number of signatures equal to about 2% of Kansas' 2022 gubernatorial election turnout, roughly 20,000.

With its recognition in Kansas, the No Labels party will now be on the ballots of at least 12 states, though the party's yet to endorse a candidate publicly.

In 2023, Sen. Joe Manchin — who's retiring at the end of his term — appeared at a No Labels fundraiser, sparking concern from some of his Democratic colleagues in Congress.

"If No Labels runs a Joe Manchin against Donald Trump and Joe Biden, I think it will be a historic disaster," said Rep. Dean Phillips in May, several months before he himself declared a run for president on the Democratic ticket against President Joe Biden.


"And I speak for just about every moderate Democrat and frankly most of my moderate Republican friends," he said.

The party may, ultimately, not choose a current Democrat for a White House bid. In July 2023, Business Insider reported that one of the party's leaders said the decision could come down to chance.

"It would be a very interesting experiment," said former Utah Gov. Jon Hunstman. "Flip of a coin? How all major decisions are made."

And though the party has said it's staunchly against former President Donald Trump's bid for office, Democratic strategists have warned No Label's efforts will only help Trump get re-elected.

In a report published Thursday by the Allbritton Journalism Institute's "News of the United States," No Labels leader and former Democratic Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon suggested that while Republican Trump supporters attacked the Capitol in 2021, "Democrats are contributing" to the country's worsening political rhetoric.

"It wasn't a Republican who said Fetterman could wear shorts from sleeping to the Senate floor," Nixon said, in reference to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's move in 2023 to alter the chamber's dress code for Sen. John Fetterman, who's well known for his casual dress.

 

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Haley deserves serious consideration for No Labels presidential ticket if interested, co-chair says​

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top No Labels leader said Thursday that Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley “would deserve serious consideration” for the group's nomination if it decides to run a third-party candidate for president.

Joe Lieberman, a former Connecticut senator and co-chair of No Labels, said Haley's record as governor of South Carolina and U.N. ambassador would be a good fit for the group's plan to find a candidate in the likely event that the 2024 election becomes a rematch between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump.



“I think I’m speaking for a lot of No Labels members. Gov. Haley would deserve serious consideration,” Lieberman said. “But that’s a decision for her to make, and it’s not an easy one. So we’ll have to wait and see.”

Haley's team said she wasn't interested in the offer.

“Nikki has no interest in No Labels, she’s happy with the Republican label,” said Haley campaign spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas.

Haley came in third in the Iowa caucuses and is banking on a strong showing in New Hampshire's primary next week to give her a path to surpass Trump, the overwhelming front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.

Lieberman last week said he’d like former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who recently ended his own GOP presidential campaign, to consider running on the No Labels ticket, calling him “the kind of candidate No Labels is looking for.”


Meanwhile, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan quit his role as a No Labels co-chair in a move that prompted speculation he was preparing for a possible presidential campaign in the No Labels ticket. He later sought to squelch that speculation, endorsing Haley for Republican nominee.

Lieberman's comments about Haley came in response to a question before the abrupt end of a news conference in Washington where No Labels leaders called for the Department of Justice to investigate their critics. Several groups aligned with Democrats have aggressively criticized No Labels and are discouraging candidates and political operatives from working with the group, warning a third-party candidate can't win but would help Trump return to the White House.

In a letter to the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, No Labels leaders allege the campaign against them is an illegal conspiracy designed to interfere with their constitutional right to seek access to the ballot. They distinguish attacks on them from typical political commentary, which is speech protected by the First Amendment, by comparing their work to the civil rights movement.


“The alleged conspiracy to stop No Labels is a brazen voter suppression effort,” Benjamin Chavis Jr., a former head of the NAACP and a co-chair of No Labels, said during the news conference.

The letter cites an array of events, most of them common political tactics or governmental decisions. A mobile billboard with a picture of Trump alongside photos of No Labels CEO Nancy Jacobson and her husband, Mark Penn, drove through their Georgetown neighborhood. A No Labels staffer said she was warned by a friend that she was endangering her career in Democratic politics by working with the group.


The Arizona Democratic Party filed an unsuccessful lawsuit challenging No Labels ballot access in the battleground state. The Maine secretary of state sent a letter to members of the new No Labels party telling them how they could change parties. A letter from the liberal group MoveOn asked other secretaries of state to investigate the group. And various critics have held meetings to discourage lawmakers, donors, candidates, political operatives and others from working with No Labels.

“This is a desperate attempt to salvage their failing campaign and keep their fleeing supporters who have finally seen through their facade,” the Lincoln Project, one of the groups targeted in the letter, said in a statement.

No Labels, which has refused to disclose its donors, has qualified for the ballot in 14 states, including the battlegrounds of Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina, and is working in more than a dozen others. It plans to offer its ballot line to a “bipartisan unity ticket” as an alternative to Trump and Biden if they remain the front-runners to win their parties' nomination, saying Americans are crying out for another option.

 

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At this point I'm ready to just burn the whole dang thing to the ground.

 

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No labels sounds awesome. In fact if we could just list all candidates on the ballot without their party, I think that would be great too.

 

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At this point I'm ready to just burn the whole dang thing to the ground.

What!? You don't love Trump anymore, even though he thinks magnets can't work under water and that Democrats can vote in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary when the truth is they can't?

(P. S., I got permanently banned from one web site for trolling by a pro-Trump monitor, due to the result of my similar commentary above and from putting up this video.)

 

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No labels sounds awesome. In fact if we could just list all candidates on the ballot without their party, I think that would be great too.

But that sounds like rank choice voting. I'm not much of a supporter of it, since it requires voters to be more responsible in how to vote, in order to intelligently determine who is 2nd best and on further down the line. Besides that, Oklahoma Republicans can't be for it since it would abolish straight party voting.

 

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But that sounds like rank choice voting. I'm not much of a supporter of it, since it requires voters to be more responsible in how to vote, in order to intelligently determine who is 2nd best and on further down the line. Besides that, Oklahoma Republicans can't be for it since it would abolish straight party voting.

Oh hell yeah, ranked choice voting is awesome. I dont know why we dont do that in every state for every election. Other than the obvious fact that many voters are stupid and would view a change as tantamount to cheating. But it's done all over the world to great success.

I wonder why only republicans are pro straight party voting. why wouldnt everyone be against it? it makes the most sense.

 

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Oh hell yeah, ranked choice voting is awesome. I dont know why we dont do that in every state for every election. Other than the obvious fact that many voters are stupid and would view a change as tantamount to cheating. But it's done all over the world to great success.

I wonder why only republicans are pro straight party voting. why wouldnt everyone be against it? it makes the most sense.

It's because lots of Oklahomans vote straight Republican on the ballot, because they wouldn't vote for a Democrat in a million years. It also makes voting faster and easier. Why would any Oklahoma Republican want to get rid of that? The only hope to end it is to do it with a petition for a vote on it. But Republicans want to make the petitioning process more difficult. It could require each one of the 77 counties to come in with a required number of signatures. It's because Republicans, especially the rural county ones, have had enough of Oklahoma liberals forcing things down upon them against their will such as extended Medicaid and most of all legalized medical marijuana. They're not happy enough that the vote for legal rec marijuana failed.

 

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It's because lots of Oklahomans vote straight Republican on the ballot, because they wouldn't vote for a Democrat in a million years. It also makes voting faster and easier. Why would any Oklahoma Republican want to get rid of that? The only hope to end it is to do it with a petition for a vote on it. But Republicans want to make the petitioning process more difficult. It could require each one of the 77 counties to come in with a required number of signatures. It's because Republicans, especially the rural county ones, have had enough of Oklahoma liberals forcing things down upon them against their will such as extended Medicaid and most of all legalized medical marijuana. They're not happy enough that the vote for legal rec marijuana failed.

There are democrats who do the same thing- those who would never vote for a republican in any circumstance, so to imply it's simply the stupidity of republican voters would be wrong, there has to be more to it than that. Perhaps the stupidity of the average voter , regardless of their party

 

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Sen. Joe Manchin announces he won't run for president in 2024​

Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democrat from West Virginia, announced Friday he will not launch a 2024 bid for the White House as an independent -- removing what would have been a major challenge for President Joe Biden's campaign.

"I will not be seeking a third-party run. I will not be involved in a presidential," Manchin said at an event at West Virginia University.


Manchin told the crowd that he will focus on putting his efforts behind his daughter's Super PAC "Americans Together."

"I will be involved in making sure that we secure a president that has the knowledge and has the passion and has the ability to bring this country together. And right now, we're challenged and we've got to see if we can move people in that direction."

Manchin announced last year that he would not seek reelection for his Senate seat, fueling speculation over whether he planned to mount a third-party White House bid.

 

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No Labels won't run a 3rd-party 'unity' ticket against Trump, Biden​

No Labels will not run a third-party "unity" ticket against Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, the group said Thursday.

In a statement, the centrist group said they were unable to find a candidate that had a credible path to winning on their hypothetical bipartisan platform -- "so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down."


"We will remain engaged over the next year during what is likely to be the most divisive presidential election of our lifetimes," the group said. "We will promote dialogue around major policy challenges and call out both sides when they speak and act in bad faith."

The decision was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Despite being able to field a satisfactory candidate, No Labels said Thursday that "Americans remain more open to an independent presidential run and hungrier for unifying national leadership than ever before."

"Big ideas are not new for us," the group said in its statement. "We have been working since 2010 to organize citizens across America and members of Congress through the Problem Solvers Caucus, which we created to push back on the extremes in our politics and push forward solutions to America’s biggest problems. That work is more important now than ever."


"For now, suffice it to say that this movement is not done," the group went on to say. "In fact, it is just beginning."

Among the names that had been floated by the group were former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu.


But none of those figures ended up getting on board.

"While I believe this is a conversation that needs to be had with the American people, I also believe that if there is not a pathway to win and if my candidacy in any way, shape or form would help Donald Trump become president again, then it is not the way forward," Christie said in a statement last week.

No Labels had faced a self-imposed soft deadline of early April to field a ticket in the 2024 presidential race, having declared last month that it would move forward with a third-party independent bid.

For the past year and a half, the group's leadership has held private conversations with potential candidates in an attempt to lure in former and current political figures, according to people familiar with the outreach.

At the same time, the group has repeatedly rebuffed the argument that its hypothetical ticket of one Democrat and one Republican would merely act as a "spoiler" -- probably for Biden.


"We will never fuel a spoiler candidate," No Labels' chief strategist, Ryan Clancy, has said. "We don't want to fuel any sort of candidacy that's pulling more votes from one side."

No Labels had been slated to hold a Dallas convention on April 14 and 15 to hear from supporters and gauge whether the group would launch a third-party ticket. The convention ended up taking place virtually in March -- a month earlier than planned, despite wanting to allow for more time.