After reportedly raising some $70 million and muscling their way onto the ballots in more than a dozen states,

the centrist group no labels admitted they had no candidate. Their goal was to put forward a unity ticket for the 2024 election.

That isn't happening, at least for now. In the meantime, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named a tech billionaire to his ticket, Nicole Shanahan.

So where does the voter looking for an alternative to Donald Trump and Joe Biden go now?

This is the assignment.

I'm Audie Cornish, and here with me is Kate de Groider.

She worked for Democrats on Capitol Hill before moving over to Third Way, and they call

themselves a radical centrist think tank. Kate, welcome to the assignment. Thanks for having me.

No labels has said, we can't find anyone to run on our ticket. Now, I'm going to put this the bluntest

way possible, which is that I feel like every person I have talked to in Washington, who, I mean, it's a bipartisan system, a two-party system, they hated no labels.

There was very much a vibe of like, oh, God, these dudes.

And people seem very unimpressed by them and what they were doing.

I think No Labels was one of the last to recognize something that was really obvious to most political handicappers who looked at their plan.

And that's that there was no chance of them winning.

And a lot of the voters that they were expecting would be part of their

coalition are folks that had previously voted for Joe Biden. And so if they were to succeed,

they would be pulling key voters out of the anti-Trump coalition. And with margins as tight as

we expect them to be this November, that could be enough to hand Donald Trump the White House.

So how come people don't feel the same way about Robert Kennedy Jr., right?

Like, his campaign isn't going away.

That's true. He's lagging a bit behind no labels in some of his ballot access work.

It is a very complicated and expensive process to get on 50 state ballots as a

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