Dick Gephardt discusses bipartisan group opposing third-party presidential candidates

August 2024 ยท 1 minute read

Fmr. Rep. Dick Gephardt:

We are totally bipartisan.

We have got great former members of Congress, like Jack Danforth, Chuck Hagel, Bill Cohen, and others. We have got great former Democratic officeholders, like Gary Hart, Tim Wirth, and others. And we are moving into this space not to attack No Labels, not to criticize them severely for what they're doing.

We understand there are a lot of really well-meaning people in that organization. We're just trying to get them to look closely at the facts. And when they're in the place where they're going to make this decision of what they're going to do about going forward, we hope they will understand that we cannot afford this risk of a third-party candidate if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee.

And our greatest worry is that campaigns take on a life of their own. If, next spring, they have raised a bunch of money, and they have candidates who are announced and out there, it will be very hard to pull that effort down.

That's our great worry, is that we will just blindly walk into a reelection of Donald Trump.

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