When politics comes up this Thursday around family dinner tables – and you know it will – it won’t be long until someone brings up the 2024 presidential race.
When they do, ask a question:
How many of you are happy about the matchup Democrats and Republicans are likely to give us next year?
You’ll likely get a lot more blank stares than raised hands, and that, in a nutshell, is why there is such a historic opening for a No Labels Unity ticket in 2024.
For the first time since Ross Perot ran for president in 1992, Americans could be offered a viable independent alternative. In June of that year – before Perot inexplicably left the race – he was actually leading the polls, with 39 percent compared to 31 percent for Bush and 25 percent for Clinton. In short, he could have won, and the public’s appetite for an alternative today is indisputably bigger than it was in 1992.
But many Americans still don’t know what to make of a No Labels ticket, and much of what they’ve read or heard is misinformation from detractors who want to kill off the No Labels effort before we can give Americans another choice.
So, if No Labels comes up around your Thanksgiving table, we want to equip you with some essential points to five questions you might get about our efforts to lay the groundwork for a No Labels Unity ticket in 2024.
1. What exactly is No Labels doing?
We have been working for two years to get on voting ballots in states across the country. This will allow us to offer our ballot line to a Unity presidential ticket next year.
2. Why are you doing it?
There are two reasons why we are working to give voters choice in 2024. Firstly, American voters want and deserve a better choice than either party seems likely to give them. Secondly, America desperately needs strong, honest and effective leadership in the White House.
3. How could an independent possibly win the White House in 2024?
Because the likely major party nominees have never been this unpopular.
An estimated 55 percent of the American public view Donald Trump and Joe Biden unfavorably, and neither candidate has a large or strong base of support.
Forget independents – even most Democrats and Republicans aren’t sold on Biden or Trump. That’s why some three in five American voters are open to voting for a No Labels ticket in 2024.
