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WASHINGTON — Democrats are urging Rep. Dean Phillips not to launch a primary bid against President Joe Biden, warning that it would only play into the hands of“He ought to go home to Minnesota,” Sen. Peter Welch said of Phillips, who is reportedly planning a 2024 announcement in New Hampshire this week.“We’ve gotta beat Trump,” added Welch, who served in the House alongside Phillips from 2018 to 2022.
The disdain for Phillips’ potential challenge to Biden is rooted in both Democratic leaders’ united public posture behind Biden, who polls show is in a razor-thin race with Trump, and in a belief Phillips is mostly embarking on a run to promote himself, rather than out of any real chance of toppling Biden.Another Senate Democrat who asked for anonymity to speak frankly of Phillips said: “What he’s doing is irrelevant to the president’s campaign and makes him seem irrelevant too.
Congressional Democrats said they didn’t know why Phillips was flirting with challenging the incumbent president of his own party. Some suggested he was doing it simply for attention.Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin quipped that “buses out of Minnesota get public attention,” making an apparent reference to anti-war Minnesota Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s unsuccessful primary bid against President Lyndon Johnson in 1968. Meanwhile, Sen.
Rep. Gerry Connolly called Phillips “a smart and talented member of House” but said he “dearly” hoped he “stays with us here in the House.”
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