Who Funds 'No Labels' Push For More 2024 Choices? They Won't Say.
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🗓️ 1 May 2023
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This episode: voting correspondent Ashley Lopez, KJZZ reporter Ben Giles, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Prondo Dungana here in Washington, DC. In front of the reflection pool in the capital where I'm here for my first time seeing it in person. |
| 0:09.0 | This podcast was recorded at 113 p.m. Eastern on Monday, May 1st, 2023. |
| 0:15.0 | Thanks for having me, by the time you hear this. But I'll still be exploring the city. |
| 0:19.0 | Okay, enjoy the show. |
| 0:24.0 | Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez, I cover voting. |
| 0:28.0 | And I'm Dominican Montenores, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. |
| 0:31.0 | And today on the show, we have Ben Giles of Member Station KJZZ and Arizona. Hey again, Ben. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello. |
| 0:38.0 | So about 47% of the country wants neither President Biden nor former President Trump to seek the presidency again. |
| 0:46.0 | That's according to polling from the Wall Street Journal. And that being said, both men are now officially running. |
| 0:52.0 | Ben, you've been reporting on a new group that is getting involved in the presidential election. |
| 0:57.0 | But they're not part of either major political party. Can you tell me about them? |
| 1:02.0 | No labels is this Washington, DC based nonprofit that has looked at polling like the one you mentioned in the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:11.0 | It has conducted its own polling and found that there are enough dissatisfied Republicans, Democrats and Independents out there to at least explore the idea of the election. |
| 1:21.0 | So, that's the idea of seeing up a third party candidate to run for President in 2024. |
| 1:28.0 | That doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to do that. |
| 1:32.0 | But they at least have started to lay the groundwork. And by that I mean, gather signatures in states across the country to qualify for the 2024 ballot as a new political party. |
| 1:45.0 | As in Arizona, for example, the no labels party. They've gained ballot access. |
| 1:50.0 | Now that means they could run any race up and down the ticket, but they're focused exclusively on the presidential race. |
| 1:59.0 | So, Ben, I mean, are they a political party? |
| 2:02.0 | That really depends on who you ask. If you talk to no labels, they are pretty forceful in pushing back on the idea that they're a political party. |
| 2:11.0 | They maintain that they're a nonprofit corporation, maybe just trying to help another candidate, another political party vehicle get on the ballot. |
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