Former Lt. Gov. Jeff Duncan (R) announced Monday that he is withdrawing his name from the list of candidates running for president in a third-party presidential race backed by the political group No Labels.
“After careful consideration, I have withdrawn my name from the No Labels presidential race,” Duncan said in a statement, as reported by the Associated Press.
“I was honored to be called out,” said Duncan, a frequent critic of former President Trump. I’m doing it,” he said. , Added.
Mr Duncan’s announcement comes as No Labels seeks to solidify the president’s “unity ticket” for the 2024 election. The group announced earlier this month that it had voted to recommend the ticket, but did not say which candidate it would choose.
Centrist political groups have been considering for months the possibility of issuing a bipartisan ticket as an alternative to a rematch between Presidents Biden and Trump, but both presidents have recently lost enough delegates to secure their respective parties’ nominations. secured a member of parliament.
But in recent weeks, a number of candidates have publicly announced that they will not run on unlabelled tickets.
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has chosen to run for Senate instead of running as a third-party candidate. Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-Virginia) and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman have all said they are not interested in running.
Duncan said he is focused on “fixing and improving the Republican Party with Republican Party 2.0 so that we can elect more common-sense conservative candidates in the future.”
During the 2020 election, Duncan fiercely defended the integrity of Georgia’s elections, even though the state was the target of President Trump’s alleged election sabotage efforts. Mr. Duncan testified before a Fulton County grand jury that ultimately led to the revelation of a massive racketeer-influenced corruption organization (RICO) indictment against Mr. Trump and many of his allies.
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