All posts tagged "Third Party"

Chris Christie won't roll up the sleeves to take on Donald Trump as a third party candidate.

The Washington Post reported the former New Jersey governor scratched his name off of the list of potentials that No Labels hopes to formalize ahead of the November 5 election to rival President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

“I appreciate the encouragement I’ve gotten to pursue a third-party candidacy,” Christie informed The Post on Wednesday. “While I believe this is a conversation that needs to be had with the American people, I also believe that if there is not a pathway to win and if my candidacy in any way, shape or form would help Donald Trump become president again, then it is not the way forward.”...

No Labels, the purportedly centrist political organization that says it has managed to gather the support it needs to be included on 2024 election ballots in four states, is misrepresenting its path to the presidency, an election analyst wrote Friday.

Despite a severe distaste for both political parties that dominate the U.S., No Labels' third-party bid is based on misrepresentations about the nature of how politics works, according to senior FiveThirtyEight elections analyst, Geoffrey Skelley.

"It’s too early to evaluate whether No Labels’s candidate could be a spoiler for the Democratic nominee, but the group’s belief that it could mount a victorious campaign rests on several misconceptions about contemporary politics," Skelley wrote on Friday. "First and foremost, the share of the electorate made up by independent moderates isn’t large enough to win a presidential election."...