{"id":13972,"date":"2024-01-13T01:53:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T01:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/no-labels-reaches-out-to-chris-christie-regarding-a-potential-third-party-bipartisan-presidential-ticket\/"},"modified":"2024-01-13T01:53:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T01:53:42","slug":"no-labels-reaches-out-to-chris-christie-regarding-a-potential-third-party-bipartisan-presidential-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/no-labels-reaches-out-to-chris-christie-regarding-a-potential-third-party-bipartisan-presidential-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"No Labels reaches out to Chris Christie regarding a potential third party, bipartisan presidential ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The centrist group No Labels is trying to reach out and speak with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie \u2014 who this week ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination \u2014 about a possible role in a potential third-party, bipartisan presidential ticket.<\/p>\n

Sources in Christie\u2019s political orbit confirmed to Fox News there has been outreach by No Labels but that the organization has not had any actual conversations with the former governor since he suspended his presidential campaign on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Christie campaign manager Maria Comella on Thursday said that \u2018neither the governor nor anyone on the campaign has had conversations with No Labels.\u2019<\/p>\n

Former Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the party\u2019s 2000 vice presidential nominee and a No Labels founding co-chair, said in a radio interview after Christie ended his White House bid that Christie \u2018could be a very strong candidate\u2019 on the group\u2019s proposed unity ticket.\u2019<\/p>\n

Christie, a longtime ally turned vocal GOP critic of former President Donald Trump, in June launched a second bid for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n

Asked in an interview in July if he\u2019d consider joining a possible No Labels ticket, Christie shot down the idea, saying, \u2018I think it\u2019s a fool\u2019s errand.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m not in this for showtime. I\u2019m not in this for making a point. I\u2019m in this to get elected President of the United States, and there are only two people who will get elected President of the United States: the Republican nominee for president and the Democratic nominee for president,\u2019 Christie said at the time in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC\u2019s \u2018This Week.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lieberman, in a Sirius XM interview with Michael Smerconish, said Thursday that when Christie made his comments last summer \u2018he basically said it was not an effort that had any chance of succeeding, but maybe the world will look different to him now.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019d like to reach out to him and see if he, Gov. Christie, is at all interested in being on a bipartisan No Labels Unity ticket this year. He could be a very strong candidate,\u2019 Lieberman added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Lieberman called Christie \u2018refreshingly independent\u2019 and said he \u2018might well be\u2019 No Labels \u2018material,\u2019 adding that \u2018that\u2019s the kind of candidate No Labels is looking for.\u2019<\/p>\n

No Labels has said it will pull the trigger on whether to launch a presidential ticket in March, following Super Tuesday, when a slew of states hold nominating contests.<\/p>\n

Trump is the commanding front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, and plenty of political pundits argue that any third-party ticket fielded by No Labels would only benefit Trump in a likely rematch this November with President Biden.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also been a chorus of calls from Democrats warning that a No Labels ticket would pave a path to victory for Trump in next year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

No Labels takes issue with that criticism, and has repeatedly pushed back on such notions.<\/p>\n

\u2018That\u2019s not our goal here,\u2019 Lieberman told Fox News Digital last year. \u2018We\u2019re not about electing either President Trump or President Biden.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sources in Christie\u2019s political orbit sounded skeptical when asked about the former governor joining any No Labels ticket. And they pointed to Christie\u2019s comments on Wednesday as he dropped out of the race.<\/p>\n

\u2018I want to promise you this \u2014 I am going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be President of the United States again. And that\u2019s more important than my own personal ambitions,\u2019 Christie emphasized as he suspended his campaign.<\/p>\n

\u2018Even though I am suspending this campaign, I am not going away, and my voice is not going away,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

Referring to Trump, Christie stressed, \u2018I am not going to be a part of a generation who willingly stands by and says, \u2018It\u2019s too hard. He\u2019s too loud, he\u2019s too strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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