President Joe Biden said Arizona’s newest political party, No Labels, will help his eventual Republican opponent in the 2024 presidential election during a Sunday interview with ProPublica.
Biden said No Labels will harm his electoral prospects during an interview with reporter John Harwood, asserting its organizer Joe Lieberman is making a “mistake” by abandoning the Democratic Party for a third party effort.
“He has a democratic right to do it, there’s no reason not to do it,” Biden said of Lieberman. Though Biden did not name former President Donald Trump during his answer, he insisted Lieberman’s work with No Labels is “going to help the other guy” and Lieberman “knows” it.
Biden added, “that’s a political decision he’s making, that I obviously think is a mistake, but he has a right to do that.”
No candidate has declared a presidential bid for No Labels’ nomination, however, the party has repeatedly said it intends to use its ballot access in battleground states like Arizona to serve as a launching pad for a moderate presidential candidate who offers a meaningful alternative to the Republican and Democratic nominees. Both Lieberman and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) have been floated as possible presidential candidates for the party.
