"... No Labels has faced rejection from over a dozen prospective candidates who want nothing to do with them, for reasons ranging from distaste over the party’s shadowy funders to an unwillingness to play spoiler in the pitched battle between President Biden and Donald Trump. It looks like the organization that promised to shake up the 2024 presidential race may end the cycle with no candidate at all. Yikes!
"The group’s 0-for-13 track record at candidate recruitment is a brutal admission that, whatever its flashy marketing may suggest, few knowledgeable political players have faith in its mission to create a nonpartisan presidential ticket. Eight months out from Election Day, No Labels’ tentative nominating convention is looking an awful lot like the political equivalent of Fyre Fest. [snip]
"No Labels’ efforts are crashing and burning because the movement is an astroturfed effort by conservative big-money donors
to throw a wrench into the 2024 election cycle. Ambitious politicians
from all corners of the political room have so far been smart enough to
keep their distance from whatever it is No Labels is cooking up. Voters
should do the same." -- Max Burns, writing in The Hill, on the ratfucking operation No Labels' difficulty in finding grifters willing to sabotage democracy and their own careers at the same time.
