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1. No Labels bottoms out: On Thursday afternoon, No Labels, the much-ballyhooed effort to recruit a centrist presidential ticket in 2024, announced that it couldn’t and wouldn’t do so.
“No Labels has always said we would only offer our ballot line to a ticket if we could identify candidates with a credible path to winning the White House,” said Nancy Jacobson, the group’s CEO, in a statement. “No such candidates emerged, so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down.”
Well that was much ado about nothing!
For much of the past 18 months, No Labels insisted that if the two major parties nominated Joe Biden and Donald Trump then it would field a national ticket aimed at the ideological middle — and promised that such a ticket would win the White House.
The group came under massive onslaught from Democrats — particularly the group Third Way — who insisted that the only thing they would accomplish would be to make it easier for Trump to win a 2nd term.
No Labels struggled to make a credible case that it would not, in fact, aid and abet Trump. (I wrote about the insane logic guiding No Labels here.)
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