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On Point | Podcast

Behind the group pushing for a third-party presidential candidate

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The political organization No Labels says it wants to unite Americans around a third-party presidential candidate. But critics say their efforts are more likely to lead to the re-election of Donald Trump. Jay Nixon, Dick Gephardt and Jack Beatty join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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The political organization No Labels is pushing one message for 2024 by partisanship.

0:32.0

This year we hope that No Labels Common Sense Division helps to bring our political parties back together,

0:43.0

revives our government and reunites the American people.

0:49.0

That's Joe Lieberman speaking at a No Labels event in Manchester, New Hampshire in July.

0:54.0

He's one of the founding chairman of the group and a former US senator from Connecticut.

0:59.0

Created in 2010 by Democratic operative Nancy Jacobson, No Labels has worked to create the so-called problem solvers caucus in Congress.

1:10.0

Jacobson once said if its bipartisan advocacy quote, No Labels doesn't mean don't have a label.

1:17.0

It just means put the label aside and work together and do what government needs to do.

1:22.0

End quote.

1:23.0

Well this election cycle, No Labels believes what it needs to do is influence the 2024 presidential race

1:31.0

and possibly run its own third party candidate.

1:34.0

According to a recent poll out of Quinnipiac University, that's something nearly half of voters say they would consider.

1:41.0

The group is pushing to get on the ballot in all 50 states and plans on holding its own convention in Dallas next April.

1:50.0

But No Labels doesn't mean no agenda and the 2024 election is not a normal presidential cycle.

1:57.0

Critics say that while No Labels claims to champion unity launching a third party candidate

2:03.0

could instead propel the most divisive political figure in America back to the White House.

2:09.0

The twice impeached, thrice indicted, election denier Donald Trump.

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