{"id":2213261,"date":"2024-04-04T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-labels-drops-plans-for-third-party-presidential-run\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T17:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:26:32","slug":"no-labels-drops-plans-for-third-party-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-labels-drops-plans-for-third-party-presidential-run\/","title":{"rendered":"No Labels abandons third-party presidential bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-labels-drops-plans-for-third-party-presidential-run%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2213261&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Centrist group No\u2063 Labels has decided \u2064to abandon its plans for a third-party presidential run as no\u200d viable winning candidate was found. The group&#8217;s founder and CEO, Nancy Jacobson, stated\u2064 that despite the interest in an independent presidential \u2062bid, they couldn&#8217;t identify candidates \u200cwith a credible path to victory. This decision reflects the ongoing\u200d pursuit of unifying national \u200cleadership. No\u2064 Labels, a centrist group, has opted to discard its intentions for a third-party presidential campaign due to the absence of a viable candidate with a \u200cpotential to win. Nancy \u200dJacobson, the group&#8217;s founder and CEO, acknowledged the failure \u200cto identify credible contenders for\u200d victory despite \u2062the public&#8217;s interest\u200c in independent runs, underscoring\u2064 the group&#8217;s commitment to promoting unified national leadership.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"No Labels Drops Plans for Third-Party Presidential Run\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/harvard-grad-student-calls-on-hamas-to-strike-tel-aviv\" data-post-url id=\"print-1875915\">\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Centrist group No Labels on Thursday dropped its plans to launch a third-party presidential bid after failing to find a candidate it determined had a realistic chance of winning. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;No Labels is ending our effort to put forth a Unity ticket in the 2024 presidential election,&#8221; the group\u2019s founder and CEO Nancy Jacobson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections\/no-labels-will-abandon-2024-presidential-campaign-effort-4b4e5121\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>  in a Thursday statement, noting that &#8220;Americans remain more open to an independent presidential run and hungrier for unifying national leadership than ever before.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;But 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,&#8221; Jacobson added. &#8220;No such candidates emerged, so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No Labels, which sought to raise millions of dollars to challenge the two major parties, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/no-labels-to-launch-presidential-campaign\/\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span>  early last month it would launch a third-party campaign for the November election. But the group was not able to convince any prominent politician to run on its ticket, with Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.), former New Jersey governor Chris Christie (R.), and former Maryland governor Larry Hogan (R.) ruling out a presidential run with the group. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The centrist group <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/04\/04\/no-labels-no-presidential-ticket-00150627\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>  it would &#8220;remain engaged over the next year during what is likely to be the most divisive presidential election of our lifetimes, [promoting] dialogue around major policy challenges and call[ing] out both sides when they speak and act in bad faith.&#8221;<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>The end of No Labels\u2019s campaign came after Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/democrats-in-panic-mode-over-third-party-threats-report\/\">expressed<\/a> concern that a third-party or independent ticket would help Republican nominee Donald Trump by siphoning votes from President Joe Biden. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Democratic officials last week <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/democrats-rage-over-rfk-jr-campaign-in-dnc-call\/\"><span>slammed<\/span><\/a><span>  independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he announced his presidential running mate. Rep. Robert Garcia (D., Calif.) said during a call hosted by the Democratic National Committee that he was &#8220;personally offended and just disgusted by [Kennedy\u2019s] campaign,&#8221; adding that Kennedy &#8220;should be ashamed of himself [and] stop running for president.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images&#8217; centrist group No Labels has decided to halt its third-party presidential bid due to the inability to identify a viable winning candidate. The group&#8217;s founder and CEO Nancy Jacobson stated, &#8220;No Labels is ending our effort to put forth a Unity ticket in the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2807,"featured_media":2213262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Voting-e1600369538196.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Voting-e1600369538196.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}