No Labels, the group that could put Trump back in the White House

But Labels, a non-profit organization that defines itself as “bipartisan,” would study the possibility of presenting an alternative candidate for the 2024 election. No Labels candidate would thus join Cornel West, a progressive intellectual who has already announced that he will seek the US presidency as an independent candidate. Among Democrats, alternative candidates are raising concerns about their potential to facilitate a Donald Trump victory.

This institution, which was created in response to the Tea Party and aimed at promoting consensus between both parties, has been working for months on structuring the pre-election campaign, which it has not yet finished announcing. By now, the group would have already collected the necessary signatures to install candidates in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Utah.. According to the organization itself, the effort is trying to establish a “policy” against an election where the only two candidates are Trump and Biden. For No Labels, according to its co-president Larry Hogan – the former Republican governor of Maryland – “the majority of people in the US are not happy with the direction the country is going and they do not want to see Joe Biden or Donald Trump as president.

Because of this, he would try to present a team composed of a Democrat and a Republican who will run for President and Vice President (unclear at the moment). According to Nancy Jacobson, CEO of No Labels, the deadline for which they plan to introduce a candidate would be March 2024. The decision will depend on whether the candidates from the two major parties are “sufficiently unpopular,” according to Ryan Clancy, the group’s head of strategy. and that the No Labels candidacy has a real chance of success. The organization is expected to reveal more details about its plans at an event next week to be presented by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, DW.V., and former Utah Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman.

The moves of No Labels were greeted with fear by the Democratic Party. In the current context, there is no shortage of reasons. In 2020, Biden reached the White House after winning the election by less than 5% over his rival Donald Trump.. In 2016, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton despite receiving a smaller percentage of the vote (48% for the Democratic candidate vs. 45.9% for Trump). The trend, however, goes further: in five of the last six presidential elections, the winner’s margin was below 5%.

Tilt the scale

Since May, all polls that include the alternative candidacy have suggested that her performance could be a swing in favor of Donald Trump. through the democratic transfer of votes. Of course, in all cases the differences are so small that they fall within what could be considered the polls’ margin of error.

In the past, No Labels was involved in the establishment clubs of clubs bipartisan “Problem Solvers”, within the House of Representatives, focused on promoting consensus between representatives of both parties. Until now, one of the most frequent critics of the organization points out the opacity of its finances.. In Arizona, one of the states where the group intends to run, the Democratic Party has already filed a motion to try to force it to reveal the source of its funds or force it to lose its status as a political party.