Democrats Should Panic About No Labels. So Should Republicans.
June 23, 2023
Democrats are panicking over No Labels, the bipartisan group laying the groundwork for an independent unity ticket as an insurance policy if Donald Trump wins the GOP nomination. Democrats complain No Labels would bleed support from President Biden without winning Republican votes, thus handing the presidency to Trump.
In fact, No Labels can win Republican support — but only if it nominates the right candidates.
To be sure, a successful third-party ticket has beena quadrennial fantasy. And it’s true that in normal times, third-party candidates are nothing more than spoilers. But these are not normal times. Overwhelming majorities of Americans say they do not want a Trump-Biden rematch. A HarrisX poll for No Labels — which surveyed more than 26,000 registered voters in all 50 states — found that 69 percent don’t want Biden to run again and 62 percent don’t want Trump to run again. That level of dissatisfaction with the major parties’ top contenders is virtually without precedent.
Continue reading in The Washington Post.
