No Labels Party Proposes Effort to Swing Election for Preferred Candidate After Voting Ends
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“There could be negotiation to create a coalition government where electors get traded between different candidates,” Chief Strategist Ryan Clancy said.
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In the unlikely event that no candidate reaches 270 electoral votes come November, centrist group No Labels has floated a reality in which the outcome of the election could hinge not on the will of the voters, but rather on which candidate might be more willing to cut a deal with the group. “It’s possible… that there could be negotiation to create a coalition government where electors get traded between different candidates to get somebody over 270,” No Labels chief strategist Ryan Clancy told NBC News. No Labels co-founder and former Rep. Tom Davis elaborated on the idea: “It could be, for example: ‘We’re going to build a border wall [and] not run deficits.’ Any number of things,” he said, adding that the group could “swing faithless electors over” in spite of the will of the voters.
