No Labels says it will not launch presidential ticket to challenge Joe Biden and Donald Trump - eviltoast
  • stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    idk how anyone can take seriously a presidential campaign from a ‘party’ that doesn’t have a single elected seat at any level of government.

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          7 months ago

          Major spoiler though. In 1992, he got like 20% of the overall vote in an election Clinton won by 6%

          • stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            I don’t think anyone would argue third party candidates can’t be effective spoilers. I think that’s at least partially why they enjoy as much support as they do. But they’re not serious candidates for the office and anyone that votes for them is likely helping the party furthest from their values.

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        7 months ago

        Would still have to form a coalition with someone or be a lame duck or his entire term. Ultimately boiling down to being just another member of that faction. There’s very little say or control.

  • 8ender@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    So is No Labels a dark money funded movement to funnel votes away from Biden or Trump?

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      7 months ago

      More like a vanity project of Enlightened Centrist (m/b)illionaires. They’re legitimately not launching a ticket because they can’t win, just like they said. So they’re not funneling votes from anywhere.

      Sane people could have told you, it was never going to work, especially not at the presidential level.

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
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        7 months ago

        People online love to jump to conspiracies over logical conclusions. I think this comment is probably the most likely situation. There’s already a massive network of dark money on the right, they wouldn’t need to fund another group

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        7 months ago

        Not being able to find a serious candidate probably didn’t help. Yes, please tell me more about the elites Mr Kennedy who has never worked before

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      7 months ago

      It was created to help Trump, but they realized that they would take more GOP votes than Dems, so they stopped.

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    7 months ago

    I think the final straw was when I didn’t return any of their persistent phone calls begging me to run