Turmoil Threatens to Derail No Labels Unity Campaign
No Labels, an advocacy group laying the groundwork for a unity ticket presidential campaign in 2024, is in turmoil, Politico reports. “Interviews with 14 former employees—including five who left in the...
View ArticleArizona Democrats Sue to Block No Labels
“The Arizona Democratic Party will file a lawsuit Thursday against the state’s top election administrator and No Labels, seeking to reverse the moderate group’s recognition as a political party for...
View ArticleThird Party Effort Raises Alarms
Washington Post: “Uncertainty over the $70 million No Labels ballot effort has set off major alarm bells in Democratic circles and raised concerns among Republican strategists, who have launched their...
View ArticleWhere Did No Labels Get Its Money?
Popular Information: “No Labels said that it has raised $70 million for the effort and will seek to secure a line on the ballot in all 50 states. It has ‘already gained ballot access in Arizona,...
View ArticleThe Folly of a ‘Bipartisan Unity Ticket’
Seth Masket writes that the push for a “bipartisan unity ticket” by No Labels is based on a fundamental misreading of American politics — just because people express dissatisfaction with the major...
View ArticleHarlan Crow Is a Big Donor to No Labels
New Republic: “Years before megadonor Harlan Crow was reading ProPublica stories about his close ties with Clarence Thomas, often seen as maybe the most partisan justice on the Supreme Court, he was...
View ArticleNo Labels Warned Against Misleading Voters
“Maine’s secretary of state has formally warned a national organization that is trying to form a new political party in all 50 states against mischaracterizing its intentions to prospective voters,”...
View ArticleNo Labels Ramps Up Push for ‘Unity Ticket’
“The bipartisan political group No Labels is stepping up a well-funded effort to field a ‘unity ticket’ for the 2024 presidential race, prompting fierce resistance from even some of its closest allies...
View ArticleNo Labels Won’t Reveal Its Donors
Politico: “No Labels’ bid to run a third party presidential candidate in 2024 has sparked a number of questions about political motivations. Chief among them: Who, exactly, is paying for this thing?”...
View ArticleMore Democrats Than Republicans Open to Third Party
A new NBC News poll finds 44% of registered voters say they are willing to consider supporting a third-party or independent presidential candidate if President Joe Biden and former President Donald...
View ArticleWe Need a Third Party but Not a Third Candidate
Lee Drutman and Beau Tremitiere: “A centrist party embracing fusion voting could have extraordinary leverage in the 2024 election. All signs point to another close race, where modest numbers of swing...
View ArticleNo Labels Is Chasing a Fantasy
Geoffrey Skelley: “It’s too early to evaluate whether No Labels’s candidate could be a spoiler for the Democratic nominee, but the group’s belief that it could mount a victorious campaign rests on...
View ArticleNo Labels Skirts Disclosure Laws
Mother Jones: “No Labels, the self-professed centrist group that is preparing to possibly run its own presidential candidate in 2024, says it is not a political party. That means it does not have to...
View ArticleVoters Split on Idea of Third Party
A new Quinnipiac poll finds voters are evenly split about voting for a third-party candidate, with 47% saying they would consider voting for a third-party candidate in the 2024 presidential election...
View ArticleExtra Bonus Quote of the Day
“If you go through with this profoundly misguided vanity project you will go down as one of history’s most venal rubes, but hey man you do you.” — Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-Pa.) chief of staff Adam...
View ArticleNo Labels on the Ballot in Arizona
The Arizona Superior Court ruled that No Labels Party is a qualified party in Arizona, Ballot Access News reports.
View ArticleNo Labels on the Ballot in 10 States
“A national political movement that could offer an independent presidential ticket in 2024 as an alternative to major-party nominees said Monday it has now won ballot access in 10 states, after North...
View ArticleThe Mythology of Third Party Bids
Nate Silver: “Having looked at data on dozens of third-party candidates in other races — mostly for offices like Congress and governor when building election models — I’m skeptical that they serve as...
View ArticleSupport for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%
Gallup: “Sixty-three percent of U.S. adults currently agree with the statement that the Republican and Democratic parties do ‘such a poor job’ of representing the American people that ‘a third major...
View ArticleSpoiler Candidates Do Not Protect ‘Democracy’
Jonathan Chait: “At the risk of insulting the reader’s intelligence, apparently, it is necessary to point out that the choice construction of a presidential election is nothing like a restaurant menu....
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