LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Despite the fact that the “No Labels” party has not announced a candidate to run on their ticket in the 2024 presidential election, supporters and advocates are announcing plans to secure a place on the Michigan ballot.

The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit No Labels is a national movement that espouses policies before politics and is an organization that has announced creating a “unity” ticket to run for president if the two major parties select candidates that the vast majority of Americans don’t want to vote for in 2024. They say they are creating a “powerful force capable of countering the influence of the extremes on both sides.”

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According to the Detroit News, former U.S. Rep. Fred Upton from Michigan (R-St. Joseph), an advocate for the No Labels group, is hoping that a Republican ends up representing that No Labels organization even though the frontrunner for the position, according to many media reports, appears to be West Virginia Senator and Democrat Joe Manchin.

Manchin, however, is not the only candidate on the minds of those looking for someone to go up against President Biden and former President Donald Trump should they both win their party’s presidential nomination. Detroit News editorial page editor Nolan Finley thinks that presidential contender Nikki Haley is the right one for the No Labels ticket, saying, “The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador is the only declared candidate from either party who could restore competence to the White House and a semblance of unity to a country that has been shredded over the past seven years.”

Unfortunately for Finley, and for Haley, she is not actually surging in the polls, even with the extra boost from many media outlets around the country. In fact, in recent polling out of Iowa, a state which has their caucus in less than five weeks, shows that Trump is ahead of his rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination with 51% support from Iowans, up 8% since October. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has 19% support in the state and former South Carolina governor and ambassador Nikki Haley has 16%.

Although Upton, who voted to impeach Donald Trump, wants to see a Republican candidate on the ticket, it’s with a twist. He thinks they should have a Democratic vice presidential nominee. He also says that the organization is prepared to run a candidate in every state, although unlike in other states, in Michigan, the candidate has to seek their placement on the ballot by collecting signatures. Upton says, “No Labels is not going to run the campaign. We’re just doing ballot access.”

The No Labels group has decided that instead of choosing a nominee at a convention as previously discussed, they will have a “virtual” process of some kind next year that, according to Ryan Clancy, chief strategist for No Labels, will “feature a lot of input from our community across the country.”

Both critics and proponents of the third party organization, as well as those in the media, all have differing opinions on whether the No Labels group will help Biden or Trump more in the long run.

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Tommy Kubitschek, spokesperson for the Michigan Democratic Party says, “Let’s not be fooled, No Labels is nothing more than a right-wing funded plot to elect Trump.”

Former Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat who is involved with No Labels as a ballot integrity director says, “We’re not here to be spoilers. We’re here to win, and so the goal is not, ‘Does this hurt Trump?’ or ‘Does this hurt Biden?’ The goal is to win, and so that’s the framework with which the analysis is going on.”