- No Labels is moving closer to making a third-party bid in the 2024 election
- Founding leader Sen. Joe Lieberman says Sen. Joe Manchin and former Gov. Larry Hogan are top candidates for the “unity” vote
- This is happening because the majority of Americans say they do not want a rematch between Trump and Biden
No Labels is working to obtain a slate of candidates for the 2024 election — with outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) leading the field of potential presidential candidates.
The nonpartisan third party is seeking a unity ticket in next year's presidential election, according to former Connecticut Democratic senator and No Labels founding chairman Joe Lieberman.
“Our focus now is on getting a third line of voting in all 50 states,” Lieberman told John Catsimatidis in an interview Sunday morning on Cats Roundtable. “We are making good progress.” “We want to leave open the option of putting together a bipartisan, unified ticket for America…We may even have a chance of winning.”
“We want to get on the ballot so that next year we have the opportunity to do something truly unprecedented in America – at least since Abraham Lincoln – which is to nominate a bipartisan, unified ticket that puts America first,” he added .
No Labels founding leader and former senator Joe Lieberman said his goal for 2024 is to run on a unified ticket in November's presidential election
No Labels has touted a bid for most of 2023 without revealing who might be on a ticket that includes both a moderate Democrat and a moderate Republican.
However, several third-party hints and hints suggest that Manchin and Hogan are top contenders for the ticket.
“Joe Manchin definitely deserves to be considered as our candidate if he’s interested,” Liberman told Catsimatidis in the Sunday morning radio interview. “But there are many others.” Larry Hogan, the former Republican governor of Maryland, is another.”
“There are some surprising people outside of politics who have started talking to us too,” he teased, adding: “I'm grateful to be involved in the no label movement.” “It gives me the opportunity “After I leave elected office, to try to get our politics and government back on the right track, where it's not just about parties.”
Manchin, a Democrat, announced earlier this fall that he would not run for re-election in 2024 in West Virginia, where he has represented the U.S. Senate since 2010. When asked about his future plans, he did not rule out running for president that same year.
In 2020, Machin became a key swing vote with the slim Democratic majority. The individual senator could help shape legislation by joining or breaking with his colleagues on the left.
Some speculate that the No Labels ticket would feature Manchin as the presidential nominee and Hogan as the vice president.
“Frankly, I have never seen so much anger at the two major parties and so much disappointment that we may have a choice between President Trump and Biden again,” Lieberman lamented.
He noted that “60 to 70 percent of Americans say, 'Please!' 'Give us another choice!'
The most likely scenario is that West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin (left) and/or former Republican Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (right) would make a bid on the No Labels ticket
So far, it looks like Trump and Biden are on track for a rematch in November 2020. But it's true that a large majority of Americans don't want to see the two men on the 2024 ballot again.
Some states are trying to keep Trump out of the primary as the Colorado Supreme Court and Maine's secretary of state have ruled that the ex-president cannot run for re-election due to his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots.
Iowa opens the primaries on January 15th with its first-in-the-nation primary, followed just eight days later by the New Hampshire primary on January 23rd.
Joe Lieberman says his goal for 2024 is for the No Labels to “reach a third line of voting in all 50 states,” while Sen. Joe Manchin and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan are top contenders are on the ticket