“I’m just looking at everything possible to help my country move in a moderate, centrist [direction], making … sure that we’re making our decisions not from the extremes,” Manchin said.
No Labels, an organization that says it advocates for bipartisanship and political consensus, has taken steps to try to enter the presidential race next year. Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, a founding chairman of the group, said earlier this year that the aim of the effort was to make a statement about the partisanship of a two-party system and to ensure that Trump doesn’t become president again.
Getting ballot access
Former Michigan Rep. Fred Upton said in a recent CBS interview that No Labels is working to get on the ballot in all 50 states by the end of the first quarter of next year. The group successfully got on Utah’s ballot last week and is in the process of doing so in nearly two dozen other states, he said.
“In essence, if it’s Trump and Biden and a majority of Americans say, ‘No, we don’t want a rematch again,’ that’s what we’re shooting for, to actually have a Republican presidential candidate and a Democrat vice presidential … candidate,” Upton said. “But if it’s not Trump and Biden, or if Biden has a statistical lead, we’ll throw the cards in.”
Republican Jon Huntsman, a former Utah governor who ran for president in 2012, will also speak with Manchin on Monday at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
