President Joe Biden Says No Labels Has a Right to Run a Candidate

On October 2, President Joe Biden, speaking to a reporter for ProPublica, commented on the possibility that No Labels will run a presidential candidate in 2024. He said, referring to No Labels leader Joe Lieberman, “Well, he has a democratic right to do it. There’s no reason not to do that. Now it’s going to help the other guy. And he knows that…That’s a political decision he’s making that I obviously think is a mistake. But he has a right to do that.”


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President Joe Biden Says No Labels Has a Right to Run a Candidate — 24 Comments

  1. Disingenuous on Biden’s part. That right effectively can’t be exercised in states like New York, and Biden knows and benefits from that fact.

  2. If a candidate or party has enough money, which No Labels Party does, they CAN get on the ballot in New York.

  3. I don’t think having to throw hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars into petitioning just in one state is a sign of anything resembling a free and fair election system either.

  4. That’s what Joe says, for the record.

    His Democrat minions, especially in the swing states, won’t display such liberality.

  5. Kerry in 2004 also said the Nader had a right, but that didn’t stop them from filing two dozen lawsuits.

  6. Stone is not Jewish. His ancestry is Hungarian and Italian and he was raised Catholic.

  7. MCUSAP, do you have a reference for Kerry having said Nader had a right to run? I had never heard that. Thank you.

  8. I guess my comment about Roger Stone was incorrect, but Roy Cohn was Jewish and also Benajmain Netanyahu is Jewish and he gets tons of criticism.

  9. Joe Biden apparently does not approve of RFK Jr. running against him in the Democratic Party primaries.

  10. I think there’s a difference between saying someone has the right to do something and making it easy for them to do so.

  11. The DNC is making it almost impossible for RFK Jr. to compete with Joe Biden for their presidential nomination.

  12. Richard, I’m not sure I have an explicit quote from him, unfortunately. I was going off my memory from reading Theresa Amato’s Grand Illusion book a few years back (I assume you at least know of it, if not own a copy, considering your review is among those on the back cover), where it definitely seemed like that would be something that was said at some point, especially with how vehemently Kerry often denied his involvement in the ballot litigation that cycle.

    Specifically, there was a meeting between Nader and Kerry mentioned at the start of Chapter 3, and although there is no media record that I could find on Kerry’s behalf, the New York Times did land a brief interview with Nader, which included the following: “[Kerry] said something like, ‘We all have to do what we have to do,’ and he’s not challenging anybody’s right,” Mr. Nader said. ”In that sense he’s way ahead of his advisers.””

    https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/us/kerry-woos-nader-who-declares-him-very-presidential.html was the full Nader interview. It is likely that Amato has further notes on the meeting itself though. Sorry if this isn’ta s useful as you’d hoped— my memory was slightly faulty.

  13. MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER ELECTION SYSTEMS FOR

    USA H REPS, USA SENATE AND USA 12 AMDT EC

    ON TOP OF THE UNEQUAL BALLOT ACCESS LAWS.

    TOO MANY MATH MORONS IN NEWS BIZ TO COUNT.
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    P-A-T

  14. HOW ABOUT A BIIIIIG DAM ON THE POTOMAC RIVER ??? –

    DROWN DC – LET WHALES FLOAT OVER DC RUINS ???

  15. You love killing whales and humans. Are you biased against all carbon based lifeforms?

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