RELEASE: CITIZENS TO SAVE OUR REPUBLIC TO FIGHT THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL TICKET
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Don Foley, Joe Trippi, Jim Demers, 202 631 1802
info@forourrepublic.us
A bipartisan group of prominent Republican and Democratic Party leaders has declared that a third-party presidential ticket led by the “No Labels” organization would likely lead to a Trump victory in 2024, and presents a clear and present threat to democracy.
The group —Citizens to Save Our Republic—is forming a super PAC to fight the effort, and promises to fully disclose its funding and finances.
Today they released polling that shows that in an extremely close race such as 2016 and 2020, a significant third-party effort would drain support from President Biden and almost certainly return Donald Trump to the White House.
In a head-to-head race, the June survey of 5,700 registered voters nationwide, including over-samples of 500 voters in each of seven swing states, favored President Biden 52% to 48%, a 4-point margin that mirrors the 2020 results. However, the entry of a No Labels candidate could attract 21% of the vote, and would deliver a victory to Trump with 40% of the vote, compared to 39% for President Biden.
Citizens to Save Our Republic’s supporters include Democratic and Republican members of Congress including Maryland congressman and former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, former congressman and Presidential candidate Richard Gephardt, Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, Congressman Brad Schneider, Congressman Dean Phillips, former Senator Bill Bradley, former Secretaries of Defense Chuck Hagel and Bill Cohen, former Senator and Presidential candidate Gary Hart, former Senator Tim Wirth, former Senator John Danforth, and former Congressman Tom Downey.
Said Gephardt, “We are concerned Americans, current and former elected and appointed officials, representing both parties. We all took an oath to uphold the constitution and protect our democratic system. We believe that system is now in grave danger.”
Over the past half century, we have often disagreed. But we always put country over party, and we are united in our belief that the election of Donald Trump in 2024 represents the greatest threat to our democratic system and free elections since the Civil War. To save our American republic, Trump must be defeated.
That’s why we are calling on No Labels to abandon its effort to nominate a third-party candidate.
All credible political polling makes it clear that a No Labels third party candidate would very likely throw the election to Trump — and thereby put our democracy and system of free elections in peril.
In normal times we would have no problem with this No Labels effort. But these are not normal times. As conservative Judge Michael Luttig told the January 6 committee, our democracy hangs on a “knife’s edge.”
In 2020 we avoided having a broken election by a whisker because then-Vice President Mike Pence and a handful of Republican state election officials withstood enormous pressure and put country over party and personal politics.
Former President Trump tried to overthrow the 2020 election process and our government, which operates according to the Constitution and our rule of law. To this day, he still refuses to accept the decision of the American people in that election. That reality alone should disqualify him from being president again. A second Trump administration would undermine our 240-year experiment in self-Government.
That is a risk our country cannot afford to take. For that reason, we ask No Labels to end its effort to nominate a third-party candidate.
We urge all citizens regardless of political party or ideology to put country over party and join our effort to save our republic. Join us at ForOurRepublic.us.
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In addition to the supporters above, members of Citizens to Save Our Republic include Republican and Democratic elected officials and national political consultants:
Joe Trippi
Stuart Stevens
Richard Goodstein
Bill Kristol
Greg Schneiders
Al From
Les Francis
Matt Bennett
Reed Galen
Matthew Gorman
Terry Straub
Howard Gutman
Sam Brown
Don Foley
Bowman Cutter
David Skaggs
Toby Moffett
Ralph Neas
David Jones
