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MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 As the 2024 White House race appears to be moving toward a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump, the centrist group No Labels is taking steps to prepare for a possible third-party unity ticket.<\/p>\n

And the group says it has support, pointing to a slew of public polling that indicates Americans are anything but jazzed about a Biden-Trump presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re responding to a clear demand from American voters. The vast majority of them aren\u2019t happy with the likely major party nominees,\u2019 said the group\u2019s chief strategist, Ryan Clancy. \u2018They want another choice, and all No Labels is doing is offering them that choice.\u2019<\/p>\n

Clancy, in an interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday, said No Labels is \u2018doing a lot of dialogue with our members across the country to get a better sense of the kind of candidates, the specific candidates, that people would want to see on the ticket.\u2019<\/p>\n

He reiterated that the group hadn\u2019t made a final determination about whether they would be better served with having a Republican rather than a Democrat at the top of their potential ticket.<\/p>\n

\u2018The basis for that is some polling we did over the summer,\u2019 Clancy told Fox News. \u2018We just found that a unity ticket on the top just did better, had a better chance to win. And so that was the basis of that thinking. But we haven\u2019t made any final determination as to whether it would be a D or an R or an I on the top.\u2019<\/p>\n

Clancy added that \u2018we\u2019re going to be doing some more polling here in the next couple of weeks before we make any final decisions.\u2019<\/p>\n

Job No. 1 right now for No Labels is getting on the ballot.<\/p>\n

The group says it\u2019s on the ballot in 14 states and is currently working in 13 others. It says it intends to have ballot access in 32 states by later this year.<\/p>\n

\u2018Our focus had to be on getting on the ballots in all 50 states. Because if we didn\u2019t do that, there\u2019s no option to run candidates. So, that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing now,\u2019 former Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut said during a news conference Thursday.<\/p>\n

Liberman, the 2000 Democrat vice presidential nominee who won his last election to the Senate in 2006 as an independent, is the founding chairman and co-chair of No Labels.<\/p>\n

No Labels Co-Executive Director Margaret White said that \u2018we will decide in the coming months whether to offer our ballot line to a unity presidential ticket. If we do so, that ticket\u2019s presidential campaign will be responsible for securing access in the final 18 states, plus the District of Columbia.\u2019<\/p>\n

As it works to gain ballot access, No Labels is also reaching out to potential candidates on a national bipartisan ticket.<\/p>\n

\u2018The reality is we\u2019re beginning to talk to potential candidates,\u2019 Lieberman said.<\/p>\n

Discussing the timetable, he said \u2018when it becomes clear \u2014 as it certainly looks it will \u2014 that Republicans will nominate Donald Trump and Democrats Joe Biden, then as we\u2019ve said, around Super Tuesday of March, or perhaps earlier, we will make a decision about whether the data tell us that there\u2019s a constructive role for us to play by offering our third lines in all the states to a bipartisan unity ticket.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The candidates will emerge, I would say, no later than April,\u2019 Lieberman said. \u2018There will be a lot of time between April and the November election for them to offer that third choice to the American people and for the American people to get to know the unity candidates.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

A new name that came up this week is former United Nations Ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who\u2019s currently battling commanding front-runner Trump for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n

\u2018If Gov. Haley does not succeed in obtaining the Republican nomination for president, and she declares any interest in being part of our bipartisan unity ticket, I\u2019m sure the people of No Labels would give that the most serious consideration,\u2019 Lieberman said.<\/p>\n

The idea was quickly shot down by the Haley campaign.<\/p>\n

\u2018Nikki has no interest in No Labels. She\u2019s happy with the Republican label,\u2019 Haley campaign communications director Olivia Perez-Cubas responded in a statement to Fox News.<\/p>\n

While Haley doesn\u2019t have an interest, Lieberman said, \u2018[W]e\u2019re talking to a lot of people in both parties about potentially running.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Really, none of them said no. But none of them have said yes,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

Opponents of No Labels, which includes outside Democrat groups and operatives, have repeatedly argued that if a unity ticket is launched, it would only boost Trump\u2019s chances of retaking the White House. And No Labels opponents have publicly stated that they would put pressure on the organization and its staff as well as with donors and potential candidates.<\/p>\n

But No Labels has consistently argued that if they field a ticket, they won\u2019t be spoilers.<\/p>\n

Lieberman said that \u2018based on our polling, we think there is\u2019 a plausible chance for a bipartisan unity ticket to win in November.<\/p>\n

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Trump scored a massive victory in this week\u2019s Iowa caucuses, and if he wins big again in next week\u2019s New Hampshire primary, there\u2019s a possibility the GOP presidential nomination race could come to an early end.<\/p>\n

But Clancy said an early end to the Republican White House battle won\u2019t speed up the group\u2019s timetable.<\/p>\n

\u2018The reason is because we still have work to do on the ballot, and that\u2019s going to continue,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019ve got to just run through the finish line,\u2019 he added. \u2018Sometime mid-March is what we\u2019re thinking.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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