Four more years of a Trump presidency would take an enormous toll on America and its democracy. Polling continues to trend in Donald Trump’s direction over President Joe Biden’s, and we seem to be hurtling toward a disaster in November’s presidential election.

This is a rare and unprecedented moment in our history where a third party, such as No Labels, could either assure that a Democrat — President Joe Biden — or a bipartisan ticket would assume the White House. Most critically, we cannot allow the dictatorial, mentally unstable Trump to tread all over our domestic rights, and we must rebuff his efforts to return America to an international pariah.

While third party candidates today are often considered to be fringe candidates espousing a particular issue or singular policy proposition, there have been significant third party candidates in the past — Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, John Anderson in 1980, Ross Perot in 1992, Green Party Jill Stein and Libertarian Gary Johnson in 2012 and 2016, and perennial candidate Ralph Nader.

If truth be told, however, third party candidates historically had few political bona fides; they lacked organization and deep pockets, and had no expectation that they could win........

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