College of Political Knowledge

2024 Election Series

This political group founded back in 2010, No Labels, pretends to be a Centrist organization that would be a go-between for Dems and Repubs…..it is a con.

I have written and given my opinions on this group and you can see my sage words here….this is my most recent post that includes thoughts from years past….

No Labels, The Con That Just Keeps Giving

I bring up this fringe group because there is a bit of news that pertains to the 2024 election….

Taking a page from parliamentary systems employed around the world, the No Labels organization is raising the idea of a coalition government taking charge in the US after the 2024 election. The opening would come up if no presidential candidate wins the 270 Electoral College votes required to take office, NBC News reports. In that case, “there could be negotiation to create a coalition government where electors get traded between different candidates to get somebody over 270,” said Ryan Clancy, chief strategist for No Labels, on Wednesday.

The next day, a co-founder, former US Rep. Tom Davis, talked about how his group’s ticket could make offers to Democrats or Republicans to reach a deal. “It could be Cabinet posts. It could be a policy concession,” Davis said. Or, he suggested, it could be the vice president’s job. The negotiations would be possible, Clancy said, because of “unbound electors,” which he pointed out are allowed in some states. Just 33 require electors to vote for the ticket that carried their popular vote, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Clancy said forming a ruling coalition is just one idea; No Labels prefers to elect its own presidential candidate, per NBC. The Constitution’s 12th Amendment still calls for state delegations in the US House to vote for a candidate if nobody wins 270 Electoral College votes. Once 26 state delegations endorse the same candidate, the Senate would decide who the vice president would be. No Labels also is strategizing about how its ticket might win that way, Davis said: “We’ve mapped all this out.”

A coalition government?

What we have now cannot agree on much at all….why would a coalition government be any better?

Next speculation is swirling around the stepping down of the group’s co-chair…..

Larry Hogan is stepping down from his position as co-chair of the No Labels third-party movement, as speculation swirls that the former Maryland governor could himself end up running for president this year on a No Labels ticket. In a letter dated December 15, obtained and first reported by the AP, Hogan announces his resignation but praises the group and gives no details on why he’s leaving, Politico and the Hill report. “In stepping aside, it is my intent that new leaders, who can devote themselves full-time to the effort, will be able to take the helm to direct the No Labels political operation,” Hogan, a Republican, writes.

Hogan has in the past said the “door” was “cracked open” for a third-party presidential run, and his PAC has published ads hinting at the possibility of one. Joe Manchin, Joe Lieberman, and Liz Cheney also have ties to No Labels, which has pledged to run a unity ticket with one Republican and one Democrat. The news of Hogan’s departure came hours after NBC Washington and other outlets reported that the third-party group had obtained the necessary signatures to form a political party and get on the ballot in Maryland, one of more than a dozen states where it has done so thus far.

I have always thought this country needs a third party because nowadays our choices are dumb and dumber….but is this ‘centrist party’  the answer?

Not in my book….it would be just an added burden on the American people.

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