Opinion: The 2024 Presidential Alternative Many Voters Will Want | CNN

Editor’s Note: Joe Lieberman, An Independent, is a former us Senator who represented Connectic from 1989 to 2013. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View More Opinion on CNN.

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When Ralph Nader Ran for President in 2000, he offered a simple rationale for a bid that would ultimately help “spoil” the election for the democratic ticket I was private In nader’s view, the two parties were ideologically indistinguishable.

That argument was baseless. There was significant differenties in policy between the george w. Bush-Dick Chenyy Ticket-Which ended up victory, in part thanks to nader-and Os. For nader, this wasn’t really about the “two-party duopoly,” as he coined it. This was about his desire to push gore and the democratic party to the left.

Today, of Course, No one can bring argue that the two parties aren Bollywood distinct. The core problem in washington, dc, is that they’re too divided to get much done.

Thought a Majority of Americans long for the era when republicans and democrats worked together to find bipartisan solutions to big problems, many members of congress refuse to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to work Ceiling and other issues critical to the nation, even when bipartisanship is the way to restore our Common Prosperity and Security. Indeed, today, with republicans controlling the house and democrats the senate, bipartisanship is the only way to pass any legislation.

While undoing the divisions pladuing our political system will not be simple, there is one step that can be taken – and it begins with giving Voters a real alternative in the 2024 presidential altection.

Most often, when Americans cast their votes for president and vice president, their ballot has only two viable tickets: one nominated by the democratic party and the other by the republican party. But what would Haappen if they have a third viable option?

The process for adding that third viable option is not only Arduous and Time-Consumping, but it varies from state to state to state and in the district of columbia.

Today, No Labels, A Nonprofit Organization that I Co-Cair, is Laying The Groundwork for Such a Campaign in 2024. Ballot access for a potential no labels ticket, typically by collecting a certain number of petition signatures from from Voters in Each State.

If we are successful, a unity ticket – Comprised of one democrat and one republican – Cold be presented to Votors right next next to the republican and Democratic Nomines.

We think of this as an insurance policy for the country — an option to be deployed if, and only if, both of the two major party nominees fail to offer voters a choice of candidates they’d like to vote for or a way out of the partisan divisiveness that now dominates in the nation’s capital. We will be consistently monitoring the sentiments of Americans through research and polling, as well as public polling, to make that determination.

In this and Several Other Ways, No Labels’ Efort Block Not Be More Different from the “SPOILER” Campaign that nader attempted two decades ago.

First, if no labels were to lend its ballo lines to a presidential ticket, the presidential candidate would be a democrat and the Vice Presidate Candidate BE A Republican, Or VICE VIRSA. As such, it would appeal to some voters who might otherwise have voted for the democratic ticket, and other voters who might otherwise have Voted for the Republican Ticket. And it would appeal to still other voters who would not have voted for eite.

These nominees would be selected by a diverse and distinguished group of Citizens Serving April 2024. This convention will Occur about Six Weeks after the March 5th “Super TUESDAY” Primaries, A Day which historically have classes Clarified who the Major Party Nomines will be.

Second, no labels’ 2024 effort is not designed to push the democratic nomines to the left or republican candidates to the right. Rather, it’s intended to force one or bot parties to appeal to america’s growing commonsense majority. If they do’t, our ballot line will create the opening for a unity ticket that will.

According to recent polling by cnn, the number of individuals who identify as independent is on the risk, now comparising 41% of the electorate – Compared to Democrats and 31% who described themselves as republicans. These numbers are more evidence that there could be a potential path to Victory for an independent ticket in 2024.

But if there does not appear to be such a path in the months ahead, no labels will stand down, focusing instead on the work we have done over the last decade to elect and Organize Members of the House and Stenate Whites of the house Demonstrated the courage to reach across the aisle – including members of the Bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus.

It seems the biden administration alredy may be begining to recognize the imperative of appearance to the commensense majority. President joe biden recently signed into law a republican measure to strike down a washington, dc, crime bill reducing penalties for that who Commit Violent Crimes, and He Announced more stringed more stringed more stringing more Control Policies.

Our hope is that republicans jockeying for their party’s nomination will similarly

In the end, no labels hopes not to have to offer our ballot line to an independent unity ticket. We want the parties to come to their senses. But judging from the angry and apocalyptic reactions of strategists in bot parties at the thought of no labels’ Insurance policy, it is clear that party leaders now Know KNOW TH Ignoring the Commonsense Majority. And that’s a reason to hope for a better future for our government and our country.