Chairman Of The No-Labels Convention Says The Democrats "Are Going To Get Run Over By The Trump Train"
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Michael Smerconish CNN - Joining me now is the chair of the No Labels convention, Mike Rawlings. He's also the former mayor of Dallas, Texas and former CEO of Pizza Hut.
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.....RAWLINGS: You know, Michael, I'm fascinated with this theoretical fear mongering that's going on that somehow what's going to keep America from leaping into Dante's Nine Circles of Hell is what No Labels does. OK? Somehow, this is No Labels fault.
The Democrats, my Democrats, this is my party my whole life, OK, have done this to themselves with quixotic, a windmill chasing, with bad, bad talking points with the candidate that they chose. This is what the Democrats have done. No Labels is just speaking for the commonsense majority that says we got to have a better way out of this thing.
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SMERCONISH: OK. And I'm very -- mayor, and I know all the polling data because I do discuss it constantly. Most people want a choice. That's what they've consistently said. And a plurality of the country, I just had the Gallup data in there again are independent, not R or D. Before you leave me, respond to the person watching who says, and you've heard this too, in any other cycle, this would be worthy of pursuit, but you can't do it in this cycle because Donald Trump is perilous to democracy. You say what to that?
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RAWLINGS: We're going to get run over by the Donald Trump train. OK? We didn't tie the Democrats to this track. We were the ones that saw this coming and say, get off the track, let's do this in a different way. Let's talk about common sense issues.
Let's get common sense leadership. Let's take accountability in this country. You know, as opposed to like pointing fingers and putting the blame game, let's stand up and let's say, what we're going to do for America in this future?
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SMERCONISH: Mayor Rawlings, thank you for being here. Appreciate it.
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In theory No Labels is supposed to be an objective independent group seeking to promote a better choice for president, or at least a choice that would appeal to moderates and independents.
But in practice No Labels has been an organization that attacks only one side, the Democrats. Here we have the chairman of the NoLabels convention saying that the Democrats are going to get run over by the Donald Trump train. Not a word from him attacking Trump or the Republicans, all he does is tell us that the Democrats nominated a bad candidate.
It's unbelievable and really exhibit A as to why no one should trust No Labels. No one should support No Labels and no one should expect No Labels to have a benefit to the American people in 2024.
In truth, the No Labels party is about to nominate a never-Trump Republican.
or at least a choice that would appeal to moderates and independents.
If that was the objective, the best choice was Joe Manchin. The minute he said he would make up his mind after Super Tuesday, I knew that the democrats would get to him. The democrats are going to do anything to win.
Democratic voters are more open to the idea of voting for someone other than Biden than Republican voters are for voting for someone else than Trump. The reason is that democratic voters are on the whole more open minded than republican trump voters are. I don't have the slightest doubt that any no labels candidate ,no matter who it is ,will take more votes from Biden than he/she will take from Trump.
Really?
Then how did they left the radical left take over their party?
It’s almost funny if the denial wasn’t so sad, where are the Liz Cheneys and Adam Kissingers or Mitt Romneys on the left? It seems the entire Democrat electorate all share the same Alzheimer’s shrunken single brain cell.
You are incessantly bleating about the republicans nominating trump, if you are that worried maybe you should have put that effort into getting rid of your candidate for a better one.
Joe Biden hasn't tried to overthrow the United States government. Neither Cheney Kissinger or Romney said much of a peep about trump before January 6th 2021 in fact all three of them voted in Congress pretty much in agreement with the trump positions.
It's only when he tried to steal the national presidential election that they spoke up.
In other words you have no argument to make
In other words you can’t see because of partisanship that republicans have broken from the party to say what they think, but democrats have no integrity. That is why Santos was there as a guest and Menendez was there as a member. Nobody in the democrat party is going to say grandpa has lost his ability to govern. Integrity!
It’s part of one interview of one person.
the whining about no labels is going to be off the charts. Electoral choice really makes progressives mad.
"The whining about no labels is going to be off the charts. Electoral choice really makes progressives mad."
It's already begun and will only get worse as the months go by.
What will be funny to watch, if trump wins it will be because of the 3rd party candidates, not because Biden is seen as incompetent by 80% of independents. But if Biden wins 3rd party had no effect trump just sucks.
Except it will be Trump and his MAGAs whining about how unfair it is when No Labels nominates some Half-a-MAGA who only pulls votes from Trump. One that will effectively guarantee Biden's reelection...
Bingo!