No Labels declines to field candidate in 2024 presidential sweeps: 'A hero never emerged'

The bipartisan centrist political group No Labels announced Thursday it would decline to field a presidential candidate in the 2024 election.

No Labels National Political Director Joe Cunningham, a former Democratic congressman from South Carolina, told Fox News the decision was not made lightly.

"Let me say, it's not for lack of trying," Cunningham said on "Your World." "The short answer is that to field this ticket, No Labels was looking for a hero, and a hero never emerged."

Cunningham reiterated No Labels' rubric for putting forward a candidate for a third-party bid: Americans calling for a third option to President Biden and former President Trump, and the determination their candidate would have a pathway to win the election.

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"That's where we ran into a bit of trouble – at the end of the day, we weren't able to find candidates that we felt had a straightforward path to victory in this," said Cunningham, who himself helmed an upset in a red district near Charleston that had been represented by former South Carolina GOP Gov. Mark Sanford at the time.

On "Your World," host Neil Cavuto noted that some politicians who seemed primed for a No Labels bid, like outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., had seemed to "drop out" of otherwise unstated contention.

Former Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, a Trump critic whose name had been bandied about as a potential third-party candidate, stepped down from his No Labels post in January, and soon announced a GOP bid in the Maryland U.S. Senate primary against former state Del. Robin Ficker.

Hogan leads in recent polling over his two prospective Democratic opponents, Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks