What to Know About No Labels and Its Possible Presidential Ticket
livemint.comA political group called No Labels is trying to qualify for ballots in all 50 states so that it can field a presidential ticket next year. Its argument: Americans want an option other than President Biden and former President Donald Trump, who has a commanding lead in the GOP primary. Here’s a look at No Labels, its funding and how its presidential effort is going.
Is No Labels new? Actually, no. Longtime Democratic fundraiser Nancy Jacobson founded it in 2009 with the aim of promoting centrist policies and bipartisanship in federal politics. Before this 2024 presidential push, No Labels was probably best known for helping to start the House “Problem Solvers" caucus.
In the 2018 midterm elections, the group spent millions of dollars trying to protect those members from primary challenges. The group’s leadership includes Democrat-turned-independent former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, and Republican ex-Govs.
Larry Hogan of Maryland and Pat McCrory of North Carolina, as well as Ben Chavis, a former NAACP executive director. Is No Labels a political party? No Labels says it isn’t, and right now it isn’t following the rules of a party, such as disclosing its donors. A political party fields candidates up and down the ballot, year after year, No Labels says.
Since it is only doing work to gain ballot access for one office during one election, it shouldn’t be considered a political party or forced to follow the rules of one. Yet as it works to gain ballot access, it has to ask voters in some states to identify themselves as members of the No Label party. And the state of Arizona recently recognized the group as a party—to No Labels’ chagrin.
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