Rep. Dean Phillips still undecided on 2024 presidential run

[brooklynite]

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Democratic U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips said Sunday that he has not made a decision on whether he will undertake a long-shot presidential primary campaign against President Joe Biden.

The appearance by Phillips on the CBS program "Face the Nation" came after he confirmed late last month that he has been urged to consider running for president in the 2024 Democratic primary. The news was first broken by Politico.

The CBS interview represented the first public comments Phillips has made since news of a potential presidential run became public. Phillips has called for competition in the primary for months, and made a similar push during his Sunday television appearance.

At this point, Biden is being challenged in the Democratic primary by long-shot candidates author Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine voice Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

[Mad_Machine76]

1. Oh goddess why?!

Who's urging him on?! Why does there NEED to be competition for competition's sake?!

[Celerity]

31. Another No Labels/Problem Solvers caucus member causing trouble again.

Rep. Dean Phillips: Sen. Feinstein 'clearly losing mental acuity,' should resign

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2023/05/23/rep-dean-phillips-sen-feinstein-clearly-losing-mental-acuity


Democratic Lawmaker Warns of 'Disastrous' Consequences if Biden Renominated

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/democratic-lawmaker-warns-disastrous-consequences-if-biden-renominated-1817803%3famp=1

[niyad]

2. Dear Goddess, when I clicked on the link, for a second I thought it was desatan.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. Had to google him. Never a good sign.

Keep pondering, buddy.

[Mad_Machine76]

6. LMAO

[ZonkerHarris]

4. End your career in Democratic politics Dean. I dare you.

[Mad_Machine76]

5. I double dog dare him!

[PlutosHeart]

7. It might well be ended for him

if he keeps this up.

His secretive meeting with funders and "people encouraging him" has multiple flags. Not a good look.

[ZonkerHarris]

8. yeah, it's probably over now.

[edisdead]

9. He is my congressman and he is a pretty good one.

Unless you guys would rather have the likes of Erik Paulsen back in

[Mad_Machine76]

10. A good Congressman he may well be

But any clue why he’s contemplating this?

[edisdead]

15. Could just be gauging interest

Probably looking further down the line. He hasn’t announced right?

But here we are acting like he has and some are talking shit about him. Which seems even more counterproductive than a person gauging interest and ability to secure backers for a potential run down the road.

[PlutosHeart]

30. He has no record of note.

So after the world burns to a crisp do we really want another Blue Dog leaning right in order to fight our chances for survival?

[edisdead]

35. Blue dog leaning right????

Where do you get that?

[Mad_Machine76]

33. He seems to be thinking about 2024

Not 2028

[edisdead]

34. In what way?

He said others were urging him. He didn’t say he was running.

[Mad_Machine76]

37. He's "pondering"

Others may be urging him but he's at least considering it apparently. If I weren't a well-known political figure (which I'm not) and people were telling me to run for President even when I knew it would be a fool's errand, I'd turn them down flat because I'd know that it wasn't happening and that's it not a good idea to primary a sitting President without just cause. He seems at least tantalized by the prospect.

[ZonkerHarris]

11. challenging our party's sitting president is good? His ambitions have clouded his

judgement.
No I don't want a Republican in that seat, but I also want a solid Democrat, who's not attacking our president, who might not jump ship and become a Republican because he's not getting his way

[edisdead]

14. No way he jumps ship to become a republican

I may not like that he is talking about a run, but the fact is that he has been a good rep.

[PlutosHeart]

27. Then he needs to stop acting like he is doing

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because it gives off all those vibes.

I would like a solid Dem in that position but I am not in that area. His closeness to Amy K suggests to me that he is fairly conservative actually. His actions will have consequences in sewing doubt as well to Biden and even to him.

Poorly done Emma.

[edisdead]

36. First who is Emma?

Amy K is now a conservative democrat? He isn’t a solid Dem?

This thread is bananas.

[jcgoldie]

12. Not a good idea Dean

Democrats not as forgiving of this nonsense as republicans... may wanna just sleep on that.

[mcar]

13. Who?

[edisdead]

16. The guy that turned a fairly consistent red seat blue.

[mcar]

19. Good for him

Why is he considering a presidential run?

[edisdead]

20. Did he say he was?

Article said others had urged him to.

[mcar]

22. Oh yes, all these unnamed Democrats are "urging him to run"

Uh huh. Yeah. I believe that. Sure I do.

[edisdead]

23. So now we are questioning democrats?

[PlutosHeart]

28. No one is questioning Dems.

That statement he made seems flimsy. What...like two Dems? Five perhaps?

[Celerity]

32. 10 quid says Manchin was one of them.

No Labels/Problem Solvers mates.

[edisdead]

39. Who knows? I got the sense it was more about backers

[mcar]

38. We are told on a regular basis on this board

that is is our job to hold Democrats' "feet to the fire." Questioning a vague assertion seems appropriate in this instance.

[edisdead]

40. He said some people were urging him to run

And then a reporter said that he didn’t specifically say he wasn’t running. Where is the story?

I wrote to his campaign this morning. Maybe I will get an answer.

I do think the concept of a primary is dumb at this point UNLESS it is to show Biden beating the field and giving him a forum to show his abilities but I don’t want a dog and pony show either.

[mcar]

41. Who are these people?

Why haven't they gone public with their "urging?"

This is the same as what the media does - "Some top Democrats say, blah, blah."

He's the only one making the claim. I do not believe it is true.

[edisdead]

42. So you are calling a democrat a liar?

Do you have any reason to believe otherwise?

[mcar]

44. Done with this

Have a pleasant evening.

[edisdead]

45. Because calling a democrat a liar is wrong?

Yeah I would walk from those statements too.

[edisdead]

17. So read the article again... Some of you are jumping to conclusions.

Nowhere did it say that he said he was considering running.

It stated that he has been urged to run, and that he didn’t say he wasn’t.

It also states that he has called for competition which I do not agree with but there have been people on this forum that have made those calls not to mention the “I like Biden… But hos age” posts right here.

Dean is NOT a threat to Biden. At all. But figuring out where you can start to line things up for 2028 or beyond isn’t the dumbest thing for him OR our party.

I don’t think he should run and until he even says that HE himself is thinking of running , shitting on a dem rep seems pretty stupid to me. So far it has come out that he has been urged by some to run.

[Cha]

18. If he's such a great Rep then

stay that way.

We need all hands on Deck to Beat Back The Fascism Trying to Take Over Our Country.

We already have 2 who don't care and the green party RF cornel west. And, then there's "no labels" whatever the fuck they're about.

[edisdead]

21. I do think he has talked with them as well.

That does irk me but I believe so has Marc Pocan?

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

24. Dean who?

And urged by whom, exactly?

Anyone here heard about any groundswell for him to be a POTUS candidate?

I mean, if I thought of anyone who might qualify as a groundswell candidate, I'd think Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer, Eric Swalwell or Jamie Raskin--I see plenty of enthusiasm in Democratic circles for them (well, for a future run in 2028).

But this guy?

LOL.

[brooklynite]

25. Just a reminder that in 2020 we had 22 candidates including six House members...

...and a handful of Mayors and other folks.

[LeftInTX]

26. His grandmother was "Abigail Van Buren"--- "Dear Abby"

Maybe he should seek her advice???

His aunt is the current Dear Abby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Phillips

[PlutosHeart]

29. Her husband Mort took me to lunch

Meh.

[LiberalFighter]

43. Who?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

46. Folks, I frankly don't give a damn what Dean Phillips has to say

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