The No Labels national co-chairman spoke to Fox News on Thursday after calling on the Justice Department to investigate what he called intimidation tactics by state officials to keep the independent electoral group off the ballot.
Former NAACP executive director Benjamin Chavis, Jr. said the No Labels organization is being subjected to such tactics in a number of states, adding that his movement might not even put forward a candidate in the first place.
“No Labels is not going to be a spoiler for Donald Trump. No Labels is responding to the overwhelming majority of the American people who don’t want to see a repeat of 2020,” he said in response to criticism. Chavis later said the group will make a final ticket decision in March.
While Chavis called out Trump, the left-wing activist group MoveOn disparaged No Labels’ ability thus far to gain ballot access, and claimed on X, formerly Twitter, that it is trying to cause as much “chaos” as possible to get the Republican back into office.
As for the group’s entreaties to the Justice Department, Chavis told Fox News he is hoping for a proper investigation, saying the DOJ is the correct agency to make the case to.
“We presented the evidence and the facts. Now it’s up to them to investigate,” he said.
In separate remarks in Washington this week, Chavis elaborated that “the alleged conspiracy to stop No Labels is a brazen voter suppression effort. Based on the evidence that we have submitted to the United States Department of Justice, if individuals were working to frighten and harass an organization seeking to register disenfranchised voters, the country would be outraged and those individuals would likely be prosecuted.”
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