No Labels Won’t Run a Third-party Campaign After Trying to Recruit a Centrist Presidential Candidate

Women, while composing more than 50% of the population, make up just 19.4% of the House of Representatives and just 21% of the Senate, according to a recent report by the Center for American Progress. Voting ballot box (File Photo)

NEW YORK (AP) — The No Labels group says it won’t field a presidential candidate in November after strategists for the bipartisan organization failed to attract a high-profile centrist willing to seize on the widespread dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

No Labels CEO Nancy Jacobson said in a statement Thursday that “the responsible course of action is for us to stand down.” The decision further cements a general election rematch between the Democratic incumbent and the former president. Many voters do not have favorable views of Biden and Trump, a dynamic that No Labels had sought to address. Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the most prominent independent candidate in the 2024 presidential race.