No Labels Director Says He Prefers Biden Over Trump After Group Abandons Third-Party Effort

The national director for No Labels, the group that attempted to field
a third-party �unity ticket� for the 2024 election, said he will vote
for President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump in November.

Joe Cunningham, a former Democratic congressman from South Carolina,
told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Thursday that Biden will get his vote
after No Labels announced earlier in the day that it was ditching its
effort to get a third-party candidate on the ballot to challenge both
Biden and Trump.

�You have two prominent [candidates], and, maybe, Robert F. Kennedy. A
choice among them, for you, as a person, what would you do?� Cavuto
asked.

�Me, as a person? I would vote for Biden over Trump,� Cunningham
responded.

The No Labels director told Cavuto that his group�s biggest issue in
fielding a challenger to the two political parties was finding �a
hero,� which he said �never emerged.�

�We�ve been very straightforward and upfront and honest with the
American public that we were gonna field this ticket if two conditions
were met. Number 1, if Americans wanted another option, which is
definitely, box is checked,� Cunningham said. �And number 2, if we�re
able to find candidates that we believe have a pathway to victory. And
that�s where we ran into a bit of trouble. At the end of the day, we
weren�t able to find candidates we felt had a straightforward path of
victory in this.�

Cunningham added that it was �difficult� to find candidates who would
stand up to the two-party establishment.

�At the end of the day, pushing back against your respective political
party is difficult in this duopoly. The establishment does not reward
dissent,� he told Cavuto. �So we found it difficult to find the leaders
to step up with the courage to be able to say, �Ok, we are putting our
country first, and, you know, damn the consequences within our
respective parties.�

"No Labels" National Director @JoeCunninghamSC to Neil: "No
labels was looking for a hero. And a hero never emerged."
pic.twitter.com/2jdLA2Jlil

� Neil Cavuto (@TeamCavuto) April 4, 2024

Multiple names were floated as potential presidential candidates for No
Labels, including Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and former New Jersey
Republican Governor Chris Christie. Cunningham also showed interest in
former South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley, who dropped out
of the GOP primary, and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), who ran against
Biden in the Democratic primary.

Some Democrats have expressed concern about third-party candidates in
this election potentially taking votes away from the president as he
seeks to catch up to Trump in the polls in multiple vital battleground
states. Along with Kennedy Jr., who is polling at around 10%
nationally, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent candidate
Cornel West � both leftists � are running for the White House.

�Americans remain more open to an independent presidential run, and
hungrier for unifying national leadership, than ever before,� No Labels
said on Thursday. �But No Labels has always said we would only offer
our ballot line to a ticket if we could identify candidates with a
credible path to winning the White House. No such candidates emerged,
so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down.�

The group added that it will �remain engaged over the next year during
what is likely to be the most divisive presidential election of our
lives.�

[Gee, what a shocker!]

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Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
love this country.