Intelligencer - Why Does No One Trust No Labels?

James Carville has called No Labels “fucking bullshit.” Nancy Pelosi has said that what it is doing is “perilous to our democracy” and going to “jeopardize the election of Joe Biden.” Robert Reich, the former Clinton labor secretary, calls it a “dark money front group for Donald Trump.”
“Well, we disagree,” Ryan Clancy, the chief strategist of the group, told me over Zoom from his office at WeWork in Brooklyn Heights. “The idea that we, like, actually want to get Trump elected is a joke,” he said, citing the four months he worked at the Democratic National Committee, where he served as a speechwriter for Biden, and the two years he spent in the communications office of the Commerce Department under President Obama. “I came up in Democratic politics. Nobody here wants to see Trump back in the White House, so let’s just put that nonsense aside.”

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