The 2010s had the Tea Party, will the current decade see “No Labels”?
The centrist movement, which means “No labels”, decided on Friday to present a candidate for the American presidential election in the coming days.
After months of fundraising and fighting to participate in national elections across the country, some 800 No Labels delegates, meeting online, voted “nearly unanimously” for plans to launch a presidential campaign for November elections, said No Labels leader Mike Rawlings.
It is now a matter of finding a “ticket”, a presidential candidate and his potential vice-president to represent the list called “A United Front”.
“This moment demands that American leaders and citizens declare freedom from the anger and divisions that are ruining our politics and, more importantly, our country,” No Labels proclaims on its official website, which warns against a Biden-Trump face-to-face next November.
Ryan Clancy, the organization's chief strategy officer, said Friday on details later.
🚨Statement from Chief Strategist @RyanClancyNL:
“Now that No Labels' delegates have given the go ahead for us to accelerate our candidate search for a Unity ticket, voters will read plenty of speculation about who would be on it.
But No Labels has not yet chosen a ticket and…
— No Labels (@NoLabelsOrg) March 8, 2024
Last year, the movement launched a fundraiser, hoping to raise $70 million for the election, and promised a national convention in Dallas in April of this year.
That plan has been scrapped, and deadlines for states to run in the November elections are approaching.
Founded in 2009, No Labels was until now a think tank bringing together moderate Democrats and Republicans.
Its evolution into an independent party, presenting a Republican presidential candidate and a Democratic vice-presidential candidate, could overshadow Joe Biden, whose age, in particular, is strongly criticized by some Democratic voters, and who the undecided might sulk.
On condition of finding well-known personalities in all American states to launch the campaign.
By January, No Labels had courted the likes of Jon Huntsman Jr., the former Republican governor of Utah, Larry Hogan, the former Republican governor of Maryland, and Sen. Joe Manchin, the conservative Democrat of Virginia- Western, whose name is enough to make the White House tremble.
But none of the three responded positively.