No Labels reaches out to a former GOP presidential candidate regarding their pending third-party ticket

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As they vet candidates for a potential third-party presidential ticket, No Labels is reaching out to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

A source in the two-time Republican presidential candidate's political orbit told Fox News on Thursday that the centrist group has made outreach to Christie in recent days.

Christie, who ended his 2024 GOP nomination campaign in mid-January, appeared to leave the door open to a possible third party run in an interview with former Obama adviser David Axelrod that was released earlier in the day.

Asked on Axelrod's popular podcast if he's considering a third-party presidential bid, Christie said "I think the way I would look at it is, I will do whatever I can to try to make sure that the country doesn’t go through what I think will be the misery of a second Trump term."

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Christie, a one-time Donald Trump supporter, ally, and adviser, broke with him over the then-president's attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Biden. Christie became an extremely vocal GOP critic of the former president and made his opposition to Trump a centerpiece of his 2024 White House run.

Christie emphasized that "I wouldn’t preclude anything at this point."

But he also added, "I would