Less than a month after No Labels announced it would nominate a “unity ticket” for the 2024 presidential election, the group said Thursday that it is abandoning its longshot third-party White House bid.

“No Labels has always said we would only offer our ballot line to a ticket if we could identify candidates with a credible path to winning the White House,” the group said in a statement. “No such candidates emerged, so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down.”

As Common Dreams reported last month, No Labels — whose own leader has admitted is “not in it to win it” but rather to “give people a choice” — has poured millions of dollars in dark money contributions into a quixotic run that critics like MoveOn executive director Rahna Epting warned could “swing the election to Donald Trump,” the twice-impeached former Republican president and presumptive GOP nominee, 91 federal and state criminal charges notwithstanding.

No Labels had floated former Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a failed 2024 GOP presidential........

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