ST. LOUIS – Former Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said voters will very likely have another option in the 2024 presidential race within the next eight weeks.

After his run as a democratic governor, attorney general and U.S. Senate candidate, Nixon is now stepping into a new role as director of the ballot integrity project with the No Labels political organization.

“The reason I got involved is over 65% of the people in America want a different choice than just the same one they had last time,” Nixon said, referring to the prospective election rematch between Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump.

Joe Lieberman, a former Democratic vice presidential candidate, is the leader of No Labels.

Nixon said the organization was made up of centrist Republicans and Democrats, with more Republicans than Democrats.

Nixon called upon his days as Missouri Governor.

“I served with two-thirds of the opposite party in both the house and senate. I held over 150 vetoes. We balanced budgets…this can be done… I think folks have given up on whether we can even run our own government,” Nixon said. “The swamp of Washington is just basically controlling all of the dialogue, (and) a lot of the folks just cannot tolerate Trump anymore. You see, these pillars of democracy are just kind of eroding in front of us. I still believe there are some opportunities for us to re-orient toward the common good, not let the two parties have control in the way they have.”

No Labels promises a “common sense” presidential ticket to cut through the extreme dialogue that is killing progress on issues from the border to the budget.

“We’re on a fiscal down path as a country that’s going to remove our strength worldwide if we don’t get control of our finances,” Nixon said on the national debt.

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People from both parties agreed on that, as well as the need to address the U.S. border crisis with record numbers of migrants coming into the United States illegally.

“I think there’s a great agreement on that issue,” he said. “That’s a perfect example of an issue that’s a solvable issue. We’ve got to have a secure border as a country.”

Nixon is directing the No Labels effort to secure ballot spots for November.

The group had already secured spots in 14 states, with 14 more in progress.

He expected No Labels to secure ballot spots in all 50 states by summer’s end, with an announcement of the No Labels candidates for president and vice president coming by mid-March, after the Super Tuesday primaries for Democrats and Republicans.

“If you’re a betting man, you’d bet that’s what’s happening here,” he said. “The exit poll stuff we have seen says the candidate that’s posted as a centrist like No Labels is (doing), takes equally from both sides … but we’re not in it to take from ‘sides’.  We’re in it to win it.”

The group will only put forth a ticket if there’s a clear path to the White House, Nixon said.

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