Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan says he’ll now not run for president as a No Labels third-party candidate in 2024.
Duncan made the announcement on Monday after greater than every week of rumors that he would release a marketing campaign difficult each President Biden and previous President Trump.
“After careful deliberation, I have withdrawn my name from consideration for the No Labels presidential ticket,” Duncan mentioned Monday. “It was an honor to be approached, and I am grateful to all those who are engaged in good-faith efforts to offer Americans a better choice than the Trump vs. Biden re-match.
“In addition to my personal sector occupation and incomes a residing for my circle of relatives of 5, I’m interested in therapeutic and making improvements to the Republican Party with a GOP 2.0 so we will be able to elect extra common sense conservative applicants someday,” he added.
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Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan says he will not run for president as a No Labels independent candidate in 2024, despite more than a week of rumors. (Michael Holahan via Imagn Content Services, LLC)
Duncan entered office as a Republican when he won a general election for lieutenant governor in 2018.
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No Labels, a centrist group, has been attempting to put forward a presidential ticket for months. The group announced earlier this month that its roughly 800 delegates voted to give a thumbs up to fielding a presidential ticket.
“Now that No Labels’ delegates have given the cross forward for us to boost up our candidate seek for a Unity price tag, electorate will learn a lot of hypothesis about who can be on it. But No Labels has now not but selected a price tag and any names floating round are being put available in the market through anyone else,” No Labels chief strategist Ryan Clancy emphasized last week.
No Labels is seeking to put forward a “cohesion price tag” that would challenge both former President Trump and President Biden. (Getty Images)
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Duncan’s withdrawal comes weeks after former two-term Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a former leader of the group who was considered a potential contender for the “cohesion” ticket, also took his name out of contention. He is instead running for U.S. Senate in Maryland as a Republican.
Duncan’s withdrawal comes weeks after former two-term Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland additionally took his identify out of rivalry. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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There used to be additionally a lot of hypothesis that former U.N. ambassador and previous South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who used to be the overall 2024 GOP rival to Trump earlier than she lately ended her White House run, would imagine becoming a member of a No Labels price tag. No Labels had expressed pastime in her previous this 12 months.
Haley, on the other hand, has time and again close down the speculation.
