Wapo: No Labels, the centrist group planning a third-party presidential bid, plans to announce a nominating committee Thursday that will be charged with selecting a presidential candidate in the coming weeks, Joseph Lieberman told Washington Post https://t.co/pVzDVoAfWd — Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 13, 2024 If I ever hear the name Joe f*vking Lieberman again, it …
… The group will launch a group called the Country Over Party Committee to aid in vetting potential nominees ahead of No Labels’ virtual convention this spring. The group showed photos of a few members of the committee in the release video, including No Labels attorney Dan Webb and national co-chair Ben Chavis, and Lieberman, who represented Connecticut in the Senate first as a Democrat and then as an independent, noted that he will be part of the vetting committee, as well…
To be considered for the No Labels Unity Ticket, the candidates must agree to the organization’s six core beliefs, Rawlings said, including “that we care about this country more than demands of any political party.”
And candidates “must endorse the key elements of the No Labels commonsense policy booklet, which includes 30 ideas to address our nationâs most important challenges, ranging from immigration and border security to the budget flexion and growing threats from abroad,” Rawlings added.
Lieberman said Thursday in an interview with CNN that a candidate could be announced as soon as next Thursday.
Last week, No Labels said it would be “accelerating” its candidate outreach after its delegates voted to put forward a ticket for November.
No Labels President, Mike Rawlings (former Mayor of Dallas) is blaming the Democratic Party for choosing President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr as the partyâs leader. This clip here indicates why I canât trust some of these fake moderates like Mr. Rawlings. pic.twitter.com/rLhc3QWVuc
— The Chanteezy Is Real âď¸ (@iamchanteezy) March 12, 2024
No Labels was born as a way for Nancy Jacobson & Mark Penn to keep collecting money from the shady & the gullible. It’s in the news right now after charming a handful of obscure attention seekers and the worst of Our Very Serious Mainstream Media (see: gullible) into arguing that it’s more than a rightwing billionaires’ stalking horse. Ed Kilgore, at NYMag — “No Labels Green-lights 2024 Bid With No Candidates”:
… Former Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings, the chairman of the virtual convention that made this decision on Friday, put out a statement saying: âThey voted near unanimously to continue our 2024 project and to move immediately to identify candidates to serve on the Unity presidential ticket.â At some point in the next couple of months, assuming the group can identify qualified candidates to fill out the âunity ticket,â it is expected to reconvene the delegates for an up-or-down vote that will conclude the deliberative process. Says Rawlings: âNow that No Labels has received the go-ahead from our delegates, weâll be accelerating our candidate outreach and announcing the process for how candidates will be selected for the Unity Ticket on Thursday, March 14.â
The political logic of this two-step process is pretty simple: The idea of a bipartisan âthird optionâ has always been more popular than any actual ticket. A poll from Monmouth last summer showed support for such a ticket dropping by half when specific candidates (in that case, West Virginia senator Joe Manchin and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, both No Labels leaders) were identified…
… This contest is too volatile to tell exactly how a future No Labels ticket would affect the outcome, though Third Way and other Democrats will continue to warn of its perils. For now, it does make sense for No Labels to make every effort to show support for a no-name presidential ticket before taking the final plunge, even if it knows an identified ticket is likely to lose altitude once the blanks have been filled in.
At the moment, No Labels claims presidential ballot access in 16 states: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah. ABC News reports the group believes it is still on a trajectory to secure a post on the ballot in 33 states ultimately. Itâs a high-stakes, dangerous game No Labels is playing, and there remains a chance it will flip the board at the crucial moment and back off the unity-ticket plans. Everyone connected to No Labels claims to be revolted by the idea of playing spoiler, and most say theyâre particularly horrified by the idea of Trump as the 47th president. But the lack of empirical data that their âthird optionâ would actually work with real candidates is a problem these self-styled âproblem-solversâ need to address definitively very soon.
News –> We've obtained audio of No Labels' meeting today where they voted to move forward. News orgs are treating this as significant, but the audio suggests something else: They have zero idea whether they'll find any serious candidate at all.
Details:https://t.co/RjzAbFVckb
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) March 8, 2024
No Labels is moving forward with its plan to offer a third-party ticket in the 2024 election.
More: https://t.co/jhfvYOG734 pic.twitter.com/0MKmXgdv3I
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) March 8, 2024
… The No Labels pitch is, on its face, fair: Americans want and deserve an alternative to the presumptive 2024 nominees, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. But while No Labels presents itself as a centrist voice for Americans who âfeel politically homeless,â in reality the group is a front for billionaires and corporate executives â a Washington influence machine that fights for their financial interests in the halls of Congress. With Robert Kennedy Jr. also running as an independent, Democrats believe the No Labels third-party effort could undermine Biden and help throw the election to Trump.
Over the past year, the dark-money group has been leading a reported $70 million campaign to secure ballot access nationwide for a potential 2024 âunityâ ticket. No Labels has refused to disclose whoâs funding this effort, claiming that this is to protect its donors from âagitators and partisan operatives.â Thanks to a quirk in Americaâs broken system of campaign finance laws, the group will never be required to disclose who funded its ballot access effort â and would only have to start reporting donors if it were to formally back candidates…
Part of the reason they donât have a nominee is the referenced raging dems are working hard at providing an extremely credible promise of dropping an incredible amount of oppo on anyone who tried to step up, because of the massive potential harm it would cause to the nation https://t.co/B5IuXPdL4d
— Pat Dennis (@patdennis) March 8, 2024
Fox News,,,, welcome to the resistance pic.twitter.com/lfTQUCLg6n
— Pat Dennis (@patdennis) March 8, 2024