Chris Christie: I'll Pass on No Labels

“I appreciate the encouragement I’ve gotten to pursue a third-party candidacy,” Christie said in a statement to The Washington Post on Wednesday. “While I believe this is a conversation that needs to be had with the American people, I also believe that if there is not a pathway to win and if my candidacy in any way, shape or form would help Donald Trump become president again, then it is not the way forward.”

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Christie and his team spent the last several weeks investigating the possibility of joining a No Labels bid, as leaders of No Labels amped up their courtship of him to become a candidate.

Ed Morrissey

They're running out of time and out of credible recruits. In large part, they can thank Joe Manchin for that dilemma, who kept them twisting in the wind for months only to bail out a few weeks ago. But this has always been a stunt rather than a real grassroots effort to find an alternative to the two-party system, and that started with Manchin, too. They settled on him not because he's so very presidential, but because he had some temporary leverage in the Senate that made him the center of attention for a little while. 

No Labels needs to stand for something, not just for the negation of something. Until that happens, they'll always be a stunt. 

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