Two Threads
They claim to be moderate, centrist problem solvers who are running a 3rd part effort to "give Americans more choices."
2/ Nancy is one of DC's most powerful, influential, and connected players. A Swamp Empress. Richer than God.
She and Mark Penn are angry, though. Very, very angry. At whom, you ask?
Well, Democrats.
They were exiled from Clinton world. Obamas, same.
3/ They've been on a jihad ever since. Mark has dozens of Fox hits defending and praising Trump.
Their major donors are the EXACT same billionaires funding Ron DeSantis. (Yeah, Nancy hides her donors, but girl, your org leaks because your staff hates you.)
4/ They formed No Labels as a long con, a way to break the Democrats, get rich doing it (and again, they are VERY rich), and punish their imagined enemies.
They branded it as "centrist problem solvers" buy their plan to run a 3rd party candidate this year was anything but.
5/ They're working to put a conservative Dem (Joe Manchin is their number one pony, but Sinema is also in the running if Joe falls off) on the ballot in key states to drain off votes from Biden.
Their math, maps, and polling are utter fantasy, an ever-changing target.
6/ @ThirdWayMattB at Third Way and @Philip_Germain at LP have more stats, data, and proof of fundamental mathematical and polling dishonesty than you can imagine. NL *makes up the polling numbers* to fit their narrative.
8/ It's all a fraud. They describe Joe Biden and Donald Trump as "equally unacceptable"...an assertion I'll leave you to assess. The plan all along was to burn down Biden, and they're getting on the ballot in key states to do just that.
9/ We know the why but what about the how? Getting on the ballot is hard, and NL is fraudulently representing its petitions in many states and changing voter registrations. They're in trouble in Maine and AZ already, with more to come.
10/ But they'll be on enough close states to drag off a % of conservative Dems and elect Trump or -- and here's the big reveal -- they'll drop out and not run a candidate if the Republican nominee is -- wait for it -- Ron DeSantis.
I'll let you process that while I get coffee.
11/ From @politico, this week:
12/ That's right. Centrist, moderate, problem-solver, just trying-to-give-voters-a-choice @NoLabelsOrg gave away the entire game.
You know, Ron DeSantis, that noted moderate. You know, Smilin' Ron, the nicest Republican.
13/ We're on final now, so bear with me. Why would they say that? The answer is "Dallas" and the answer is "Manhattan."
Nancy has raised something like $70 million dollars (as noted prior) from the EXACT SAME billionaires backing DeSantis.
14/ This donor set (including Sugar Daddy Harlan Crow) cares about 3 things; lower taxes at the Mt. Everest end of the income scale, carried-interest deductions, and oil-and-gas subsidies/write-offs.
They'll get them from Trump, but DeSantis has marginally better aesthetics.
15/ If they have to spend the $$$ to destroy Biden, they will...and @NoLabelsOrg is designed to be the vehicle for an ocean of dark GOP money dressed up as moderate do-gooderism.
They're perfectly fine with Trump if it happens, and if it's DeSantis they think it's in the bag.
16/ I implore DC media types to stop referring to @NoLabelsOrg as "centrist" or "moderate" for they are neither.
It's the most cynical ploy in service to Trump and the MAGA GOP one can imagine.
17/ Two other quick notes then I'll let you get on with your day. The Ian Fleming Rule of Coincidences (look it up) of is always right.
Last week, NL heralded former NC Gov Pat McCrory as their new front man. Pat's main advisor and close friend is Chris LaCivita.
18/ For you folks playing at home, Chris LaCivita is also the lead strategist to another candidate running in 2024.
That candidate is Donald Trump.
So endeth the lesson.
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Josh Marshall's Thread
2/ In Star Wars terms, these two were on the dark side before they got the boot. Many on the left say yeah they were always triangulators and centrists and all that. They suck. And they may suck because of that. But that’s not what I’m talking about. I mean, the dark side.
3/ The best way to illustrate this is that there are a number of groups which come out of that world, you know, more centrist politics, a third way and all that. Those folks are all united abs frankly on fire saying these folks are dangerous liars. Rick refers to them.
4/ So maybe you’re from AOC style politics or more market oriented politics. But all these groups can agree that the Penn-Jacobsons are lying sleazeballs. Watch out. These are folks sponging up GOP high roller money for the sole purpose of ideally electing Ron DeSantis but
5/ if that’s not possible electing Donald Trump. The goal is 100% to prevent the re-election of Joe Biden. It’s 100% that. They know to a certainty their candidate won’t win. The only other thing I’d add that’s not in Rick’s account is don’t ignore Mark’s advertising …
6/ holding company “Stagwell Group”. That’s the formal for profit arm of Penn-Jacobson Inc. that’s how Mark owns Zombie Harris Poll, a sad afterlife of a once respected poll. He also gave Harvard University some cash to slap their name on it. Sad. Mark bought Harris …
7/ for parts and relaunched it as a kind of Rasmussen Poll 2.0. Sad. Anyway, that’s the story. Everything Rick says is 100% accurate. My points merely complement the story, add some details based on the world I come out of. Two awkward but feral gimbuses, cast out…
8/ by the forces of light and plotting with Harlan Crow to take their revenge, supporting Trump on the down-low and often loud and proud. And of course taking in people not closely involved with politics who wish our politics was less divisive.
9/ And I shld add, yes, most beltway political news orgs are totally taken in/go along with this, frequently referring to them as “the centrists”. They’re not. A group like Third Way is an actual centrist group in the context of D politics. They’re dedicating big resources …
10/ to out the Penn-Jacobson cabal for what they are. Politico, Axios, Punchbowl mostly go along with the charade or present the NL v Third Way stuff as I fighting among “the centrists”. That’s false. It’s a pure fraud. Like I said, the dark side. Sad.
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