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"No Labels won’t run a third-party campaign after trying [failing] to recruit a centrist presidential candidate" - Ted King - 04-04-2024
https://apnews.com/article/no-labels-2024-third-party-biden-trump-c7477857e1dd05535326b8850f4500a1
The No Labels group said Thursday it will not field a presidential candidate in November after strategists for the bipartisan organization failed to attract a high-profile centrist willing to seize on the widespread dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
“No Labels has always said we would only offer our ballot line to a ticket if we could identify candidates with a credible path to winning the White House,” Nancy Jacobson, the group’s CEO, said in a statement sent out to allies. “No such candidates emerged, so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down.”
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No Labels’ decision, which comes just days after the death of founding chairman Joe Lieberman, caps months of discussions during which the group raised tens of millions of dollars from a donor list it has kept secret.
Re: "No Labels won’t run a third-party campaign after trying [failing] to recruit a centrist presidential candidate" - anonymouse1 - 04-04-2024
I wonder if they're all going shift over to the RFK Jr. campaign....
Re: "No Labels won’t run a third-party campaign after trying [failing] to recruit a centrist presidential candidate" - sekker - 04-04-2024
anonymouse1 wrote:
I wonder if they're all going shift over to the RFK Jr. campaign....
Not a chance
Re: "No Labels won’t run a third-party campaign after trying [failing] to recruit a centrist presidential candidate" - $tevie - 04-04-2024
Good. Whether they knew it or not, they were a path for Trump to win the White House. I am assuming they knew it, since their donors were GOP.
Re: "No Labels won’t run a third-party campaign after trying [failing] to recruit a centrist presidential candidate" - kj - 04-05-2024
I liked the idea, but stuff doesn't always work out the way it should.
Re: "No Labels won’t run a third-party campaign after trying [failing] to recruit a centrist presidential candidate" - Ted King - 04-05-2024
kj wrote:
I liked the idea, but stuff doesn't always work out the way it should.
If we had a parliamentary system, primarily centrist parties would probably have viability. (Though, honestly, I don't know how centrist "No Labels" actually was.)
Re: "No Labels won’t run a third-party campaign after trying [failing] to recruit a centrist presidential candidate" - kj - 04-06-2024
I'm not sure I want centrist because the middle isn't always or even likely to be correct. In fact, it might always be wrong if left is correct half the time and right is correct half the time. But, like you say, it probably wasn't as it appeared anyway.
Re: "No Labels won’t run a third-party campaign after trying [failing] to recruit a centrist presidential candidate" - $tevie - 04-06-2024
With a wish list that included Joe Manchin, Larry Hogan, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley, I would say center-right to all-the-way-right, frankly.
Re: "No Labels won’t run a third-party campaign after trying [failing] to recruit a centrist presidential candidate" - mrbigstuff - 04-06-2024
sekker wrote:
[quote=anonymouse1]
I wonder if they're all going shift over to the RFK Jr. campaign....
Not a chance
Oh, I think that's quite possible; not all of them, of course, but a bunch. But rfk has to get a serious campaign infrastructure in place to attract serious workers.