No Labels is capitalizing on the scandals surrounding the two major contenders to be the next president in order to push for a third-party candidate for the 2024 election.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments over whether former President Donald Trump can be disqualified from the ballot under the 14th Amendment after Colorado’s top court ruled in favor of removing him. Just hours later, special counsel Robert Hur’s report on President Joe Biden‘s mishandling of classified documents was released.
In the special counsel report, Hur said Biden would not face criminal charges for keeping classified documents at his Delaware home and office in Washington, D.C. However, Hur recorded several passages that characterized the president as a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties—of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” Hur’s report stated.
No Labels, a group leading a third-party ballot access initiative for the 2024 election, said these revelations only prove the “urgency” to find an alternative ticket to either Biden or Trump.
“With questions swirling about Trump’s fitness to be on the ballot and Biden’s mental fitness for office — the urgency and need for No Labels to get on the ballot and provide more choice to voters becomes more obvious with each passing day,” the group wrote in a post on X.
No Labels has achieved ballot access in 14 states, with plans to gain access in 32 by the 2024 general election. Despite severe backlash from both Democrats and Republicans accusing the group of wanting to prevent a Biden or Trump election, No Labels remains undeterred in its mission to create a unity ticket.
Biden’s campaign has faced an uphill battle to push back against claims that the president, at 81, is too old to serve a second term in the White House since he announced his candidacy in April, and surveys show that their efforts to ease voters’ minds are not working. A national poll from NBC News found that more than half of Biden’s voter base, 54%, say they have major or moderate concerns about whether the Democratic incumbent has the mental and physical health to hold office when asked about his age.
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On the other side, Trump’s voting base is relatively split on whether they would continue supporting the former president should he be convicted in any of his four criminal cases involving 91 felony counts. A Morning Consult and Bloomberg poll found that 53% of registered voters in key swing states would not vote for Trump if he were convicted. If Trump were sentenced to prison time, 55% of voters said they would not vote for him.
However, more than 6 in 10 Republican caucusgoers polled ahead of the Iowa nominating contest said that their support would not waiver if Trump were convicted before the general election. In fact, 19% of likely Iowa caucusgoers said a Trump conviction would make it more likely that they’d back the former president.
