The Defectors
On Wednesday, No Labels announced that it won’t hold its presidential convention next April as planned.
That’s not to say the centrist group won’t end up nominating a candidate, but “canceling its Dallas convention will give No Labels more flexibility—and more time—to make that determination,” per Axios. As I read that, the organization wants to leave itself a path to back out of the race in case it becomes clear that their candidate would divide the Democratic vote and end up reelecting you-know-who.
Not reelecting you-know-who should be the highest priority of every freedom-loving American next year, for increasingly obvious reasons.
Because they enjoy special influence to shape opinion, I think public officials have a special duty to make that point. And because hearing GOP officials make that argument—stripped as it is of normal partisan interests—might hold special power for swing voters, those Republicans have a particularly special duty to make it.
How many do we think will do so?