No Labels to move forward with 2024 Bid

[AltWorlder]

Why are you all acting like Duncan is on the ticket, doesn't this just mean he's in charge of the candidate search committee

[AltWorlder]

Why are you all acting like Duncan is on the ticket, doesn't this just mean he's in charge of the candidate search committee

nvm I searched for it and the article says he's been floated as actually being on the ticket.



Well at least he looks presidential.

[AltWorlder]

I always assumed Huntsman would be their nominee, or possibly Sinema (maybe both, an all Mormon ticket!)

Huntsman already said no in the Deseret Times (or some other Utahn paper) in December iirc.

At this point the only No Labels-affiliated politician (as opposed to one of their pipe dream picks) who hasn't explicitly said no is Joe Lieberman lmao

[AltWorlder]

Based on both parties' primaries so far, the best GOP/Dem bipartisan ticket would be

None of these candidates / Uncommitted

[AltWorlder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU8RSfD-jxM

Watch this: Cunningham is clearly interested in the VP slot.

Duncan and Cunningham might be nobodies, but at least they aren't essentially bureaucrat-administrator types like Evan McMullin. Obviously this race lacks the same urgency or novelty of 2016 where the desire for a third choice was far more risible (and hopes in such a possibility hadn't been dashed by the actual results of 2016), but maybe they'll have more appeal than ol' egg?

Also while Duncan's name has been floated it doesn't sound like he's expressed any solid interest yet, unlike Cunningham who actually seems invested in the No Labels project. Maybe Duncan will be as much of a dud as Hogan, Huntsman, Manchin, and the rest.

Rather surprisingly I read that Joe Sestak is with No Labels now. I doubt he'd accept a ticket position though.

He's there to secure naval power assets if No Labels ever has to launch a nonpartisan coup to rescue the republic.

[AltWorlder]

Well, they just lost another potential candidate

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1773098902272573471

[AltWorlder]

I doubt he was discussed.

They have absolutely nobody at this stage. Not even a last minute backup candidate. All of that money for ballot access, absolutely cooked. Might as well throw it all to RFK at this point.

[AltWorlder]

I'm skeptical there is much overlap between RFK Jr.'s brand of independent-mindedness (anti-establishment, prone to conspiracy, generally unhinged) and the No Labels demographic (centrist, pro-establishment, pro-bipartisanship).

RFK Jr. represents the unique "fringe centrism" of being so pro-environmentalist and anti-pharma it dips into far right anti-vaxx and anti-5G anti-globalist territory, and also pairing standard leftish positions on some topics while endorsing border hawkery in a weird way to split the difference. It's like jokes about "the median voter."

He's trying to manifest horseshoe theory into reality and it's very very annoying for everyone who disbelieves in horseshoe theory.

It has nothing in common with No Labels establishmentarian decorum centrism but I'm just saying after wasting so much money they might as well give that ballot access to somebody. Have the Alliance Party or the Reform Party nominated anyone yet?

But on some level, they have something in common. Both RFK and No Labels are running out of pure spite. RFK just wants President Biden to lose because he was a non factor in the Democratic primary. No Labels wants President Biden to move back to neoliberal orthodoxy and away from economic progressivism.

It's funny because I imagine in terms of pure ideology they probably have identical political stances to say, the Lincoln Project. But they've decided to be #NeverBiden-ites instead.