The centrist group No Labels is making an attempt to succeed in out and converse with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — who this week ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination — a couple of attainable position in a possible third-party, bipartisan presidential ticket.
Sources in Christie’s political orbit confirmed to Fox Information there was outreach by No Labels however that the group has not had any precise conversations with the previous governor since he suspended his presidential marketing campaign on Wednesday.
Christie marketing campaign supervisor Maria Comella on Thursday stated that “neither the governor nor anybody on the marketing campaign has had conversations with No Labels.”
Former Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the get together’s 2000 vice presidential nominee and a No Labels founding co-chair, stated in a radio interview after Christie ended his White Home bid that Christie “might be a really robust candidate” on the group’s proposed unity ticket.”
CHRISTIE ARGUES HALEY WILL GET ‘SMOKED’ IN HOT MIC MOMENT AS HE DROPS OUT OF THE 2024 RACE
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie pronounces he’s dropping out of the race throughout a city corridor marketing campaign occasion in Windham, New Hampshire, on Wednesday. (AP Photograph/Robert F. Bukaty)
Christie, a longtime ally turned vocal GOP critic of former President Donald Trump, in June launched a second bid for the Republican nomination.
Requested in an interview in July if he’d take into account becoming a member of a attainable No Labels ticket, Christie shot down the concept, saying, “I believe it’s a idiot’s errand.”
“I’m not on this for showtime. I’m not on this for making a degree. I’m on this to get elected President of america, and there are solely two individuals who will get elected President of america: the Republican nominee for president and the Democratic nominee for president,” Christie stated on the time in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”
Lieberman, in a Sirius XM interview with Michael Smerconish, stated Thursday that when Christie made his feedback final summer season “he mainly stated it was not an effort that had any probability of succeeding, however perhaps the world will look completely different to him now.”
“I’d like to succeed in out to him and see if he, Gov. Christie, is in any respect all for being on a bipartisan No Labels Unity ticket this 12 months. He might be a really robust candidate,” Lieberman added.
Lieberman known as Christie “refreshingly impartial” and stated he “would possibly properly be” No Labels “materials,” including that “that’s the type of candidate No Labels is searching for.”
No Labels has stated it can pull the set off on whether or not to launch a presidential ticket in March, following Tremendous Tuesday, when a slew of states maintain nominating contests.
Trump is the commanding front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, and loads of political pundits argue that any third-party ticket fielded by No Labels would solely profit Trump in a probable rematch this November with President Biden.
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There’s additionally been a refrain of calls from Democrats warning {that a} No Labels ticket would pave a path to victory for Trump in subsequent 12 months’s election.
No Labels takes difficulty with that criticism, and has repeatedly pushed again on such notions.
“That is not our purpose right here,” Lieberman informed Fox Information Digital final 12 months. “We’re not about electing both President Trump or President Biden.”
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks with voters at a city corridor in Hollis, New Hampshire, on Jan. 4, 2024. (Fox Information – Paul Steinhauser)
Sources in Christie’s political orbit sounded skeptical when requested concerning the former governor becoming a member of any No Labels ticket. And so they pointed to Christie’s feedback on Wednesday as he dropped out of the race.
“I wish to promise you this — I’m going to ensure that by no means do I allow Donald Trump to ever be President of america once more. And that is extra essential than my very own private ambitions,” Christie emphasised as he suspended his marketing campaign.
“Despite the fact that I’m suspending this marketing campaign, I’m not going away, and my voice just isn’t going away,” he added.
Referring to Trump, Christie pressured, “I’m not going to be part of a technology who willingly stands by and says, ‘It is too laborious. He is too loud, he is too robust.'”
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