A ‘unity’ ticket in 2024 presidential race? Why Democrats are objecting to 3rd-party group’s plan – By Tal Axelrod (ABC News) / June 14, 2023
No Labels strongly refutes that it could serve as any kind of “spoiler.”
A “unity” team running for the White House next year may sound farfetched — one Republican and one Democrat teaming up to share a platform and a presidential ticket — but some Democrats say they are worried that such a possibility could spoil Joe Biden’s reelection hopes.
And they’re looking to stop it.
No Labels is the group floating a bipartisan team-up if 2024 features the increasingly likely rematch of Biden versus Donald Trump, both of whom face weak approval ratings. Democrats, burned by third-party candidates who may have tipped key states in 2016 — when, for example, Hillary Clinton lost Michigan to Trump by 11,000 votes while Libertarian Gary Johnson earned 172,000 ballots — are sounding the alarm that No Labels could similarly siphon votes from Biden.
In response, Democrats are mounting a scattered effort to blunt the outside group’s efforts.
