Commentary

The 'No Labels' Joke

By Byron York
Wednesday, March 13 2024

How do presidential candidacies start? Most begin with the ambitions of one person – one governor or senator or, in Donald Trump's case, one real estate mogul and reality TV star who thinks he should be president of the United States. Perhaps they even have a vision for leadership. The ambitious would-be candidate then sets out to win the support of his political party, and the race is on. That's the usual way. Right now, though, we're seeing a strange variation on the process in which a party – a would-be party, actually – has decided it wants to…

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