Amid growing fears that a potential No Labels third-party candidacy could tip the 2024 election to Donald Trump, Joe Lieberman is standing his ground.
The Atlantic reports Lieberman, a No Labels co-chair, said that the “last thing I’d ever want to be part of” would be “bringing Donald Trump back to the Oval Office.”
But such assurances aren’t easing worries of many Democrats, with whom Lieberman has had a complicated relationship since running as the party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee.
Lieberman split with the party in 2006 to win his fourth Senate term in Connecticut as an independent and then backed Republican John McCain over Barack Obama for president.
Among those who have left No Labels over concerns it could lead to another Trump presidency include co-founder William Galston.
The Atlantic wrote that “Galston resigned in protest this spring over the possibility that the bid could tip the election to Trump. Democratic members of the No Labels–backed Problem Solvers Caucus in the House have disavowed the effort for the same reason. The moderate Democratic group Third Way is adamantly opposed to the idea, and a new bipartisan group is forming to stop it.”
Lieberman told The Atlantic he remains committed to No Labels.
“I think people in both parties, particularly the Democrats, are greatly overreacting,” Lieberman told me. “They really would do better to try to build up support for their own ticket and adopt a platform that’s more to the center.”
