To Defeat Trump, No Labels Must be Stopped.
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The idea behind No Labels, that Americans should have a third choice between Republicans and Democrats, might be a good idea if our democracy wasn't under attack by MAGA Republicans. But right now, democracy is on the ballot and a third party centrist candidacy will take more votes from Joe Biden than Donald Trump. And it might even get enough electoral votes to deny 270 to either Biden or Trump, resulting in the election being thrown to the House of Representatives. This is not the time to trifle with democracy. And that's what no labels is doing. Dick Gephardt the former Democratic Majority Leader of the House of Representatives come has formed a new group, Citizens to Save our Republic. His focus is to stop No Labels from fielding candidates and if they do, to advise voters in swing states that a vote for the No Labels candidate is a vote for Donald Trump. You can find more about this effort at ForOurRepublic.us
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends, good to see you. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:11.0 | At a time when a lot of us are worried. Yeah, we're worried about what's happening in Middle East, |
| 0:16.0 | and we're worried about what's happening here or could be happening in 2024. |
| 0:21.6 | It's hard to believe, but with all of his legal troubles, |
| 0:25.6 | Donald Trump is not only the frontrunner in the Republican primary, |
| 0:29.6 | he just keeps getting stronger and stronger and even beats Joe Biden in some early voter polls. |
| 0:43.9 | And as if that's not scary enough, there's a new threat, a serious threat, an organization called No Labels, that vows to put a third-party candidate on the ballot in all 50 states in |
| 0:50.9 | 2024, which polls show conclusively would take more votes away from Joe Biden than |
| 0:57.9 | Donald Trump, and could, God forbid, put Donald Trump back in the White House? |
| 1:03.6 | So is there any way to prevent that from happening? Well, one group of former Democrat and |
| 1:10.8 | Republican leaders is determined to do so. |
| 1:13.6 | They formed an organization called Citizens to Save Our Republic for the sole purpose of persuading no labels to shut down and not do anything to help Donald Trump because the risk to our democracy is just too great. |
| 1:30.9 | Citizens to Save Our Republic is led by former Democratic Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, |
| 1:36.3 | who joins us today to update us on their progress so far and what we can do to help. |
| 1:43.1 | Mr. Leader, good to connect with you again. Thank you for joining us |
| 1:46.6 | today on the Bill Press pod. It's great to be with you. I had such a great relationship with you |
| 1:54.8 | through the years, and so it's great to be reconnected. Absolutely. We did some good work together, |
| 2:00.2 | I think. So I want to talk to you about no |
| 2:02.8 | labels, first of all. And let me ask you the question, Dick, that I'm sure you get from a lot of |
| 2:08.4 | people. Look, with 300 million Americans, what's wrong with giving voters a third choice? |
| 2:15.8 | Actually, nothing if these were normal times, these are not normal times. |
| 2:21.8 | We missed having a broken election in 2020 by a whisker, only because Mike Pence and five |
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