With the unexpected death of former Connecticut Senator and Democrat vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman, the handwriting was pretty much on the wall for the viability of a No Labels ticket. On Thursday, the organization Lieberman co-chaired made it official: No Labels will not be mounting a "unity ticket" for the 2024 elections.

Confirmed by @cbsnews

No Labels is dropping plans for a 2024 "unity ticket" for the White House

Would-be top tier candidates were turning them down... left and right (so to speak)

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) April 4, 2024

No Labels, the centrist group which has sought to field a third-party presidential bid, is abandoning efforts to create a “unity ticket” aiming to win the White House, the organization announced Thursday.

“No Labels is ending our effort to put forth a Unity ticket in the 2024 presidential election,” Nancy Jacobson, No Labels’ founder and CEO, said in a statement. She said the organization had planned to offer its ballot line to a ticket only if it could identify candidates with a credible path to winning the White House.

“No such candidates emerged, so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down,” she said, adding that the group would remain engaged in promoting unity and giving “voice to America’s commonsense majority.”

Jacobson told allies this week that the group would end its effort because it hasn’t been able to recruit a credible ticket that could win the election, according to people familiar with the process. They said Jacobson told supporters that the organization had reached out to 30 potential candidates during its process.

No Labels reportedly raised $70 million toward their mission to create bipartisan consensus in the highest branch of government, but never could shake the suspicion that they were merely playing spoiler to the re-election of President Joe Biden. Their talk of a "Third Way" has not been well-received by Never Trump Republicans and Democrat Leftists; but I repeat myself.

No Labels raised tens of millions of dollars for its prospective presidential ticket. Some was spent on ballot access operations for a ticket that will now never exist. Most has not been accounted for publicly—and might never be, given the group’s structure.

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) April 4, 2024

The egregious Lincoln Project, a supposed group of Republicans who did actually play spoiler in 2020 in order to get then-Vice President Joe Biden back into the White House, has accused No Labels of being a dark money organization that was working to get former President Donald Trump back into the White House for 2024. 

No Labels is OUT. Today’s huge win is a testament to the strength of the pro-democracy coalition we've amassed since 2020. No Labels is a dark money operation created to throw the election to Trump… and failed. But there’s still more work to do.

Next up: RFK@TheRickWilson: pic.twitter.com/3qFP9xvZg8

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) April 4, 2024

MoveOn has been beating the drum as well, warning that No Labels is disingenuous in its intent.

"No Labels Co-Chair Joe Lieberman claims he wants to prevent Trump from becoming president again. If those sentiments are genuine, the only responsible course for No Labels is to abandon its third-party efforts."https://t.co/Gqt8dzxqJl

— MoveOn (@MoveOn) March 20, 2024

Both groups see this as a win, and now they are setting their sights on destroying Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s campaign. These folks generate more drama than Jerry Springer. 

Along with the unfortunate timing of Lieberman's death, No Labels continued to receive refusal after refusal from potential candidates to join this bipartisan ticket.

Lieberman's death not only marks an irreplaceable loss for No Labels, it injects a new level of uncertainty into the organization’s 2024 ambitions.

Just hours before news of his death was reported this week, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who twice ran unsuccessfully for the GOP nomination, announced his decision not to join No Labels' presidential ticket. It was the latest in a string of high-profile rejections for the group, which has nonetheless secured a spot on presidential ballots in more than a dozen states.

Already, No Labels had courted and been denied by would-be White House contenders in both parties including Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

Chris Christie makes it his goal to be as close to presidential power as he possibly can get, by any means necessary; so, if you've lost him, you've pretty much lost the thread. Before officially calling it quits, No Labels Convention Chair Mike Rawlings said that Democrats had it all wrong about the group being a spoiler for Trump.

Rawlings said the Democrats are blaming the wrong group when asked about No Labels acting as a “spoiler” in 2024. He said that Democrats should blame themselves since they chose Biden, again, as their nominee.  

“Somehow this is No Labels’ fault,” Rawlings, the former CEO of Pizza Hut, said. “The Democrats, my Democrats, this is my party my whole life, okay have done this to themselves with quixotic, windmill-chasing, with bad, bad talking points, with the candidate that they chose. This is what the Democrats have done. No Labels is just speaking for the common sense majority that says we got to have a better way out of this thing.”

Rawlings also predicted that Democrats would get run over by the "Trump train." Should The Lincoln Project, MoveOn, and others prove unsuccessful in prying Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from his campaign, Rawlings' prediction may well become reality.