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Leaked audio from the No Labels delegate assembly reveals a bunch of people that can't discover a nominee and will by no means get a nominee.
Greg Sargent wrote in regards to the leaked name in The New Republic:
On the finish of the decision, Mike Rawlings, president of the Nationwide Convention of No Labels, mentioned it was important for the group to “see a path to the White Home.” He admitted: “We do not need any candidate. And it’s attainable that in the long run we won’t discover a appropriate candidate.”
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“All the most important candidates contacted by No Labels have declined,” Third Means's Bennett tells me. “It’s because it’s clear that their ticket is a highway to nowhere. No critical individual needs to be within the single digits nationally whereas serving to Trump win.
Joe Manchin, Nikki Haley, Larry Hogan, and Kyrsten Sinema have rejected no labels. Nobody with a nationwide title needs to contest on this ticket when it’s clear that the one factor they’ll obtain is to convey Trump again to the White Home.
Neither potential candidate needs to go down in historical past as the person who led the top of American democracy.
Neither label has been clear of their course of. It needed to be leaked as a result of the group wouldn’t enable the media to observe their resolution making, which is one other technique to shield them from public accountability and the democratic course of.
Could by no means be third-party run. It's already March, and No Labels can't discover any credible nationwide figures prepared to run for president on their ticket.
The media is hyping No Labels as a result of they’re solely involved with drama and horse racing, however the remainder of the nation must be very involved and ensure they don't fall for one thing that’s more and more trying like a present Which may break.
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