Rick Wilson, Co-Founder and Board Member of The Lincoln Project, Accuses No Labels of Being a Front Organization for Trump Reelection Effort

Here is his commentary.

It is certainly anyone’s right to be opposed to the existence and mission of No Labels, but commentary like this, in my opinion, does not lend credence to the anti-Trump movement.


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Rick Wilson, Co-Founder and Board Member of The Lincoln Project, Accuses No Labels of Being a Front Organization for Trump Reelection Effort — 28 Comments

  1. Only, Rick Wilson is absolutely right and history will prove that, “no labels” was nothing more than a MAGA grifting scam.

    Intelligent Americans can smell this rotten excrement 500 miles away.

  2. Lincoln Project? I thought that folded when it turned out that they were sexually harassing young male interns and diddling underage boys?

  3. It’s not possible to lend credence to an anti Trump movement, because saving America and making her great again are good things and trying to stop them is bad and inherently lacks credence.

  4. “No Labels” is less a front group for anyone, and more just a group of ideologically confused center-right/right-wing folks who think they’re centrists and moderates. But confused or not, they have every right to organize and run for office outside of the two ruling parties. The Lincoln Project should probably also take a refresher course on the history of the politician they named their organization after, particularly the history around and just before the 1860 Presidential election.

  5. Some of the Lincoln Project’s greatest hits: hiring Rick Wilson’s son Andrew, dressing up as tiki torch bearing Nazis to try to smear soon to be Governor Youngkin, and Rick Wilson himself wishing out loud Trump will get nominated so they can rake in more money from rubes. With enemies like this, President Trump can’t wish for better friends.

  6. (!) Caution, Bill: Take care about posting links to donation-solicitations like this to the Ballot Access News website.

  7. ELIAS – CHIEF COMMIE DONKEY MONSTER IN GERRYMANDER CASES FOR YEARS

    THUS – NOLABS – A FRONT GROUP FOR ONE WORLD GANGSTER MONARCHS/OLIGARCHS ???

  8. Rick Wilson is proof that Trump isn’t the only Republican that pushes conspiracy theories.

    As proof of No Labels being a Trump front group, Wilson says to look at the people involved: “Jared Kushner. The man who stole the girl of Donald Trump’s dreams.” While funny, what he is referencing is Drew McKnight, a guy who worked for a company that had a couple of business deals with Jared Kushner. Apparently, because McKnight’s company loaned Kushner’s company $57 million, McKnight is therefore a close associate of Trump’s inner circle and must therefore be a Trump lackey who does things like fund Trump front groups.

    A quick look at Open Secrets shows that Drew McKnight donated to Obama in 2008, Hillary in 2016, and later Evan McMullin and Joe Manchin. Other politicians he has donated to include Susan Collins, Mark Warner (D), Tim Kaine, Angus King, and Kyrsten Sinema. He donates to moderates and mostly to Democrats.

    So, Rick Wilson’s conspiracy theories fail just as hard as do Donald Trump’s.

  9. This is the sort of hysterical nonsense that emerges whenever any significant third party or independent candidates challenge the major parties under plurality voting.

  10. Why is it not possible for Republicans and Democrats to realize “just maybe there are voters out there that think both the main parties suck”?

    “No, you can do this. Just not this election because nuclear meltdown will occur to the world if you let that other guy wins.”

    Yeah, you said this in 1992, 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2020 as well. Democrats raving “you voted for Nader in 2000 and look what happened? You must in 2004 vote for JOHN KERRY! The safety of the world depends on it!” No, you’re just going to invent an excuse every election because you don’t want competition. Sorry, I have a memory and don’t develop collective amnesia when it’s politically convenient.

  11. ““No Labels” is less a front group for anyone, and more just a group of ideologically confused center-right/right-wing folks who think they’re centrists and moderates. But confused or not, they have every right to organize and run for office outside of the two ruling parties.”

    I think it’s more a group of pols that have rightly noticed both parties have shifted further right and further left, and there’s nothing in between them. The Blue Dogs are dead as is the Rockefeller Republican wing, but even the Clinton people of the ’90s would be considered too right-wing for most Democrats (Hillary Clinton and John Edwards themselves recognized this, Edwards was more left in 2008 than 2004, ditto Hillary 2016 compared to 2008) and the Bush people of the ’00s would be considered not MAGA enough for most Republicans.

    Part of the problem with Republicans is the modern-day national Republican Party just does not believe in fiscal conservatism – having no problem with spending more more more but being against taxes does not make you fiscally conservative – so there’s reams of 1980s, 1990s, even 2000s Republicans that have no place in the current party. Trump’s nomination in 2016 completely changed the party. Sanders likewise succeeded in changing the Democratic Party albeit he did not win the nomination. It’s natural these people without homes look for something new to serve them…

  12. It’s a conspiracy, but not a pro Trump one. Although, if it has any electoral impact at all, it’s likely to be an inadvertent pro-Trump one.

  13. It’s a conspiracy, but not a pro Trump one. Although, if it has any electoral impact at all, it’s likely to be an inadvertent pro-Trump one. Let’s hope so!

  14. “Yeah, you said this in 1992, 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2020 as well.”

    Yes, and what do they push as a remedy? The National Popular Vote scam, that doesn’t even fix the underlying flaws of plurality voting. It simply increases the chance for total election chaos across the entire country.

  15. NPV, NO LUBE, RCV, PHONY TRUMP INDICTMENTS AND PERSECUTIONS, ALL SCAMS! TINY D AND THE SEVEN DWARVES POSE NO CHALLENGE IN GOP PRIMARY!! SENILE QUISLING JOE AND MAU MAU CUMALA HERASS SINKING LIKE A ROCK!!! TRUMP WILL WIN HUGELY!!!!

  16. Ryan – the two most prominent people in No Labels are Joe Lieberman and Joe Manchin. They would both be Blue Dog Democrats if that faction was organized in the US Senate. It’s center-left, not center-right. The center-right would be people like Rick Wilson, who opposes No Labels.

    The Blue Dogs are almost gone. But, the Rockefeller Republicans are not.

    Half of the Rockefeller Republicans (the Nixon branch) were absorbed by the Social Conservatives, the other half (the Eisenhower branch) by the NeoConservatives. There were very few difference between the NeoConservatives and the Rockefeller Republicans prior to the collapse of the USSR, with the main one being that one favored containment and the other wanted to deal with the Soviets on a pragmatic, case-by-case basis. Once the USSR was gone and that difference vanished, the Rockefeller’s split on cultural issues, like abortion, and joined the other two factions. But, it isn’t a coincidence that the Social Conservatives and NeoConservatives were allied for the next few decades.

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