What is No Labels? Why Is It Such a Political Failure? Steve’s Hits & Misses This Week

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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This week, the group known as "No Labels" said they wouldn't be putting up a third party "unity ticket" for the 2024 election. Steve explains why this movement, which had so much chatter around it, failed to produce anything. Plus, he picks out the hit of the week - and you'll be surprised to find out what it has to do with Trump wanting to pull out of NATO. *** To become a The Warning Premium Member and listen to the show 48 hours early with access to premium content visit: https://thewarning.supercast.com/ Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

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0:00.0	Welcome to this edition of Hits and Misses. The Warning. It is the 5th of April.
0:08.8	213 days remain until America decides who the next commander-in-chief will be, President
0:16.9	Joe Biden or the insurrectionist Donald Trump.
0:21.6	Each Friday we look back the biggest hit and the biggest miss of the week.
0:26.6	All right, let's go to the video table.
0:29.6	Right here, right one, go, drop him out.
0:34.6	Reggie Jackson.
0:39.3	On by our big, big World Series for Reggie Jackson.
0:48.4	Let's start with the mess. Let's start with the mess. No labels after years of hype, publicity, promises, and more over promises, did not in the end come up with a candidate.
1:10.2	The whole thing was nonsensical from the beginning.
1:16.1	The idea that a small back room would choose a national unity ticket, a Democrat and
1:22.7	Republican, and pair them, discounting completely the nature of individual character, intellect,
1:32.2	fortitude, all of the qualities that produce great political leaders in times of crisis.
1:39.8	No label said none of that matters.
1:42.3	All that does is the mechanics, the details, the ballot access.
1:48.0	No labels promised over and over again. It had the money. It had the resources. It had the interest.
1:55.5	Incredibly, one of its co-chairman, the moderate Republican from Maryland, Larry Hogan, all of a sudden
2:04.1	resigns from no labels, endorses Donald Trump, and a few days later announces his candidacy for
2:10.6	the U.S. Senate in Maryland. This supposedly principal man who would never get on board on the
2:17.4	Trump train, all of a sudden,
2:20.2	well, he needs the endorsement, I guess.
2:23.6	Here's the deal.
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