WTH is No Labels’ Plan For 2024? No Labels Co-Chairman Governor Pat McCrory Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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America seems to be on a locked path towards a Trump-Biden rematch in 2024. But is this what people want? The polls say no. And is this really our only option? No Labels, the organization looking at presenting a third-party candidate, agrees. Decried (mostly by Democrats, for now) as a spoiler, No Labels leadership believes that for the first time, a third party candidate has a shot at winning the election. And what is their path to victory? Winning unconventional states, making a common sense case to Americans, and broadening the election. All will be revealed, maybe, by Super Tuesday.
Pat McCrory is the national co-chair of No Labels. He served as the 74th governor of North Carolina from 2013 – 2017, and the 53rd mayor of Charlotte before that. While serving as mayor of Charlotte, McCrory served on the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2002 to 2006 under President George W. Bush.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. Hotels gone on. |
| 0:01.0 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, I'm Daniel Pletka. |
| 0:29.6 | And I'm Mark Dyson. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.6 | Mark, what the hell is going on in politics? Well, we're talking about what the hell is going on? Mark, what the hell is going on in politics? |
| 0:39.1 | Well, we're talking about what the hell is going on with no labels. |
| 0:42.3 | So the Democrats are freaking out because no labels, this nonpartisan or bipartisan group is in the process of getting on the ballot in all 50 states, |
| 0:58.3 | and they are very serious about running a third-party ticket if Donald Trump and Joe Biden are |
| 1:05.6 | the nominees of their two parties. Nikki Haley just had a good performance in New Hampshire. She's heading to South Carolina. |
| 1:13.3 | The GOP primary is not over yet, so I don't want to presume that she's not going to succeed |
| 1:18.8 | because she seems to feel she still has a path to victory, so let that all play out. But we've got |
| 1:24.4 | to start thinking about how this general election plays out. And unlike |
| 1:30.2 | Robert F. Kennedy or Jill Stein or Cornell West or some of these smaller candidates, |
| 1:37.9 | no label seems to think that it has a path to victory. And the polls kind of bear that out. |
| 1:44.0 | There's a, their own research, I just want |
| 1:46.2 | to give people the polling so they know what the context is. Fifty-nine percent of all voters say |
| 1:51.5 | they would consider a moderate independent candidate in the 2024 race, including 59 percent |
| 1:57.0 | of Democrats, 53 percent of Republicans, and 70 percent of independence. And that's |
| 2:03.2 | borne out by a new Reuters Ipsos poll, which just came out, which shows 56 percent of Americans |
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