Why a Third Party Is a Threat
The Mona Charen Show
The Bulwark
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Matt Bennett joins the team to discuss the ill-considered No Labels third party gambit. The group then turns to Trump's return to Fox, Greg Abbott's proposed pardon of a murderer, and how abortion is roiling elections.
highlights/lowlights
Damon's:
https://substack.com/profile/12665540-damon-linker?utm_source=substack-feed-item
https://on.substack.com/p/notes
Bill's:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/13/21-year-old-with-top-secret-information-00092002
Linda's:
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-us-is-not-close-to-doing-enough?utm_medium=email
Matt's:
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1646205733774540823?s=20
Mona's:
https://www.econtalk.org/erik-hoel-on-the-threat-to-humanity-from-ai/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to beg to differ. The Bull Works weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil |
| 0:11.9 | conversation across the political spectrum. We range from center left to center right. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Mona Charen, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork, and I'm joined |
| 0:21.6 | by our regulars, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:26.4 | Damon Linker, who writes the sub-stack newsletter notes from the middle ground, |
| 0:30.7 | and Linda Chavez of the Niscanon Center. Our special guest this week is executive vice president |
| 0:36.4 | of Third Way, Matt Bennett. And we are delighted to be back. We picked a heck of a week to be off. |
| 0:45.4 | Trump was indicted, huge explosion of news, but we will do our best to catch up. But first off, |
| 0:51.9 | I want very much to address something that is out there. It's been a little bit below the radar, |
| 0:58.6 | but Matt has been following it very closely. Namely, there is an effort by a group that |
| 1:05.8 | calling itself no labels that is launching or attempting to grease the skids for a third party candidate. |
| 1:14.0 | They have $70 million war chest. They've already achieved ballot access in a number of states, |
| 1:22.0 | Arizona, Colorado, Alaska, and Oregon. It has signature gathering efforts underway in other states. |
| 1:28.9 | And the idea is to present a third option beyond Democrat and Republican, a moderate political |
| 1:36.8 | choice for those who dislike both Trump and Biden. So Matt, fill us in on this, who's behind it, |
| 1:44.0 | and why are you so exercised about it? Well, first of all, thanks for having me, Mona. Bill |
| 1:50.1 | Gaulsen can talk a little bit more about who no labels is. Actually, Bill has been very involved |
| 1:54.8 | them until recently, because I think like me, he's quite concerned about this presidential pit. |
| 2:00.5 | But no labels started and has done quite a bit of good work in the center trying to bring |
| 2:05.6 | Republicans and Democrats together, especially in Congress. However, in the last year or so, |
| 2:10.9 | they have been aggressively fundraising and then doing work on the ground, as you've noted, |
| 2:15.2 | to gain ballot access to run candidates for President and Vice President in 2024. In fact, |
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