No Labels might give Nikki Haley’serious consideration’ on a unity ticket. Lieberman
MANCHESTER, N.H. — As the 2024 White House election appears to be headed for a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump, the centrist group No Labels is preparing for a potential third-party unity ticket.
And the group claims it has support, citing a flood of public polling that shows Americans are everything but enthusiastic about a Biden-Trump presidential contest.
“We are responding to a clear desire by American voters. “The vast majority of them are dissatisfied with the likely major party nominees,” said Ryan Clancy, the group’s top strategist. “They want another choice, and all No Labels is doing is offering them that choice.”
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According to Clancy, No Labels is “doing a lot of dialogue with our members across the country to get a better sense of the kind of candidates, the specific candidates, that people would want to see on the ticket.” Clancy made this statement on Thursday to Fox News Digital.
He reaffirmed that the committee had not reached a definitive decision regarding whether or not they would be better off fielding a Republican rather than a Democrat as the head of their prospective ticket.
“Some polling we conducted over the summer serves as the basis for that,” Clancy said to Fox News. “We discovered that a unity ticket at the top performed better and had a higher likelihood of winning. That became the core of that way of thinking. That being said, we haven’t decided whether the top letter would be an I, R, or D.”
Clancy went on to say “we’re going to be doing some more polling here in the next couple of weeks before we make any final decisions.”
Currently, No Labels’ top priority is to be placed on the ballot.
Margaret White, Co-Executive Director of No Labels, stated, “We will decide in the coming months whether to offer our ballot line to a unity presidential ticket.” If we do, that ticket’s presidential campaign will be in charge of getting access in the remaining 18 states, plus the District of Columbia.”
While working to acquire ballot access, No Labels is also reaching out to possible candidates for a national nonpartisan ticket.
“The reality is we’re beginning to talk to potential candidates,” Lieberman was quoted as saying.
When asked about the schedule, he said, “when it becomes clear — as it certainly looks it will — that Republicans will nominate Donald Trump and Democrats Joe Biden, then as we’ve said, around Super Tuesday of March, or perhaps earlier, we will make a decision about whether the data tell us that there’s a constructive role for us to play by offering our third lines in all the states to a bipartisan unity ticket.”
“The candidates will emerge, I would say, no later than April,” Lieberman stated. “There will be a lot of time between April and the November election for them to offer that third choice to the American people and for the American people to get to know the unity candidates.”
Former United Nations Ambassador and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who is now battling front-runner Trump for the Republican nomination, is a fresh name to emerge this week.”If Gov. Haley does not succeed in obtaining the Republican nomination for president, and she declares any interest in being part of our bipartisan unity ticket, I’m sure the people of No Labels would give that the most serious consideration,” Lieberman said in a statement.
The concept was promptly rejected by the Haley campaign.
“Nikki isn’t interested in No Labels. Olivia Perez-Cubas, Haley campaign communications director, responded to Fox News, saying, “She’s happy with the Republican label.”
While Haley is not interested, Lieberman stated, “[W]e’re talking to a lot of people in both parties about potentially running.”
“Honestly, none of them said no. “But none of them have said yes,” he said.
Opponents of No Labels, who include outside Democratic groups and operatives, have consistently warned that launching a unity ticket will only increase Trump’s prospects of retaking the White House. No Labels opponents have publicly declared that they want to put pressure on the organization and its staff, as well as donors and possible candidates.
However, No Labels has consistently stated that if they file a ticket, it will not contain spoilers.
Lieberman stated that “based on our polling, we think there is” a reasonable opportunity for a bipartisan unity ticket to win in November.
Trump easily won this week’s Iowa caucuses, and if he wins big again in next week’s New Hampshire primaries, the GOP presidential nomination fight could be over early.
However, Clancy stated that an early finish to the Republican White House contest will not accelerate the group’s timetable.
“The reason is because we still have work to do on the ballot, and that’s going to continue,” he told reporters.
“We’ve got to just run through the finish line,” he said. “Sometime mid-March is what we’re thinking.”
