Exclusive: Mitch Daniels on a third-party presidential bid

Plus: The latest on Mike Pence's quest to hit 40,000 donors.

Mitch Daniels said that he has had informal conversations with backers of the centrist group No Labels about their efforts to run a third-party presidential ticket. 

But the former Indiana Republican governor scoffed at the idea that he would be a candidate for such a unity campaign.

"They're too smart to ask, and I'm too smart to say 'yes,’" Daniels told…