No Labels Will Decide Whether to Jump Into the 2024 Election Next Week https://t.co/z38WbZooiV
— Emily Mills (@sf_mills) February 29, 2024
Ed Kilgore, at NYMag, is extremely skeptical:
… “No Labels has said for months that our movement plans to regroup shortly after Super Tuesday to evaluate whether we should offer our ballot line to a Unity presidential ticket — and that remains the plan,” the official said. “On March 8, we will gather our 800 delegates from all 50 states — who would ultimately approve a final Unity ticket — to discuss and vote on whether they want us to continue moving forward.”…
I know a candidate that No Labels can get behind. A seasoned politician who knows all the tricks to get things done in Washington, restore our alliances, reduce crime and rebuild our manufacturing base for a greener future. The only man to ever defeat Trump at the ballot box. https://t.co/ndwkzNc9pC
— zeddy (@Zeddary) February 23, 2024
Tara Palmeri, journamalistic botfly, at Puck:
So it’s finally put up or shut up time for No Labels—the disorganized dark money group that counts Nelson Peltz, Steve Schwarzman, and Harlan Crow as donors—to execute its quixotic plan to assemble a unity-ticket to challenge the increasingly inevitable disappointment of a Trump–Biden rematch. Over the last two years, the third-party group has raised tens of millions on the assumption that No Labels and its opportunistic C.E.O., Nancy Jacobson, could recruit a viable candidate—Larry Hogan, say, with Joe Manchin as V.P. Sure, No Labels has been able to get their name on the ballot in 16 states. Unfortunately, they just haven’t been able to find that dream ticket, which will prevent them from ballot access in many others.
So on March 8, just three days after Nikki Haley is set to be demoralized in 16 states on Super Tuesday, No Labels is handing over the power to their 800 delegates to make a choice about whether to move forward, and with whom. Their ideal candidate, of course, has been Haley, herself…
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