On Thursday night's edition of MSNBC's The ReidOut, host Joy Reid opened the show panicking over the centrist group "No Labels" and the news that they are laying the groundwork to run a centrist third party ticket in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. This apparently frightened Reid who lashed out and fear mongered over what will happen if No Labels manages to take enough votes away from President Joe Biden in the November election and reelects Donald Trump. As you can imagine, it was a completely unhinged prediction of the "end of democracy" in the United States.
"They’ve been openly flirting with recruiting moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin who just happens to also be a co-chair. He has not said if he will run for president as a centrist," Reid said angrily.
Reid observed that "Democrats are not thrilled, you might imagine, about this prospect, because data shows that the introduction of a No Labels candidate siphons votes away from Biden and could lead to a Trump victory."
Which according to Reid "could literally usher in the demise of American democracy."
No just the end of democracy according to her. A possible second Trump administration would be "ready to end abortion access nationally, prosecute political enemies, round up homeless people and execute drug dealers. A prospect that rightfully scared people."
What Reid fails to understand is that third party bids traditionally hurt Republicans just as much as Democrats, if not more. In 1992, independent presidential candidate Ross Perot was widely believed to have cost Republican President George H.W. Bush a second term against the perverted Bill Clinton.
You can go all the way back to 1912 when Teddy Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate against his hand picked successor William Howard Taft. The two ended up splitting the Republican vote and allowed the racist leftist Woodrow Wilson to get elected.
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MSNBC’s The ReidOut
6/22/2023
7:45:12 p.m. EasternJOY REID: They’ve been openly flirting with recruiting moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin who just happens to also be a co-chair. He has not said if he will run for president as a centrist. Democrats are not thrilled, you might imagine, about this prospect, because data shows that the introduction of a No Labels candidate siphons votes away from Biden and could lead to a Trump victory. Which could literally usher in the demise of American democracy, with an administration ready to end abortion access nationally, prosecute political enemies, round up homeless people and execute drug dealers. A prospect that rightfully scared people.
