Interest in third parties running Presidential candidates in the 2024 election is on the upswing. Much of the interest has been stirred by the No Labels movement, which has apparently denied that it is a political party bound by Federal or state campaign finance laws.
According to NPR, No Labels has gained access to the ballot in Arizona, Colorado, Alaska and Oregon. No Labels indicated that it may or may not run a candidate for President, but will not run anyone else. Readers familiar with ballot access laws will realize that in some states people who want to run as ‘No Labels’ need no one else’s permission to do so. For more by NPR, read here.
CPR News reports that New Labels submitted the needed 10,000 signatures in Colorado to become a Minor Party, meaning that the party can place nominees on Colorado’s general election ballots without candidates having to individually petition on each campaign cycle. No Labels is Colorado’s sixth Minor Party. For more by CPR News, read here.
We are seeing op-ed articles in which writers propose that a Biden-Trump rerun will sufficiently repel the voters that a third-party candidate could win. Note for example, Peggy Noonan writing in the Wall Street Journal. For more by WSJ, read here.
We also see Democrats and Republicans who are perturbed that a third-party candidate might affect the election. Note, e.g., NBC News, in which Democratic strategists are quoted as saying that Johnson and Stein (Libertarian and Green, respectively) cost Clinton the 2016 election, based on polling that showed that 2012 third-party voters broke 2-1 for Biden over Trump in 2020.