Zero voters show up to a Dean Phillips event in New Hampshire

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Dean Phillips parked his “Government Repair Truck” outside the DoubleTree hotel here for an event dubbed “Coffee Conversations,” where he planned to talk to voters and give out free Dunkin’ coffee.

But no one showed up.

The problem: The temperature was below freezing and, according to the campaign, people were parking in a garage underground and entering through the hotel.

Phillips ended up pouring coffee for the staffers who were there.

“Sometimes if you build it, they don’t come,” he said.

[AllyCat]

1. Who?

[Demovictory9]

11. Double who?

[DemocraticPatriot]

52. Yeah, that's what they said....

and then went off to attend to more important business....


Before 'Dean who' presumed to challenge 'Fighting Joe Biden' for renomination,
I had never heard of him.... and neither did most other people, other than his constituents of his congressional district....


It is very poetic. "Sometimes you build it, but they don't come"...

That should give you a clue, Dean....

[Rebl2]

37. Saw him mentioned

a couple weeks ago and had to ask who he was here on DU. Then asked my husband if he knew who he was and he had forgotten about him too.

[AllyCat]

39. A forgettable guy trying to spoil our country

[gratuitous]

2. Dean: Read the room

Find something useful to do, would you please?

[Ocelot II]

3. Time to pack it in, Dean.

Your campaign was never going to go anywhere; now that the clue bird has shat on your head you should take notice and stop being an unhelpful asshole.

[dchill]

6. "...the clue bird has shat on your head..."

I like it a lot!

[FSogol]

4. But no one showed up. The problem: Dean Phillips is a moron & all Democrats know that voting for Phillips is

no different than voting for Muammar Covfefe.

[Ocelot II]

8. Muamar Covfefe!

I'm stealing that.

[Bristlecone]

5. A complete clown

[Permanut]

13. Not complete..

Some parts are missing

[TSExile]

7. Best laugh I've had all day!!

[FelineOverlord]

9. #DropOutDean is trending wildly

This is pathetic.

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[redqueen]

23. OMG that mug

[SWBTATTReg]

28. I love this, a Cuppa Joe!

[JustAnotherGen]

10. Love it!

[mcar]

12. A great turnout for an invisible candidate

[LiberalFighter]

14. Was the event being held indoors or outdoors?

If it was indoors then why would temperature be a factor?

[yardwork]

22. It was outdoors. He had a food truck in the parking lot.

However, people were parking in an indoor garage and entering the lobby that way. So, there was no foot traffic at his truck.

The weather wasn't really an issue - 22 degrees in New Hampshire is nothing. His team just screwed up.

Extremely poor logistics. If he can't organize a coffee hour how is he going to run the country?

[shrike3]

25. "His team screwed up."

Did they ever. Sheesh. Almost feel sorry for the guy. (Not that sorry.)

[yardwork]

30. Anyone who's planned an event that went wrong understands.

However, people running for president are supposed to know how to hire staffers who can manage a parking lot coffee hour.

This says a lot about his campaign, all bad.

[shrike3]

33. Exactly.

If he can't hire people who can actually run a campaign competently, how's he going to run a country? I think we have our answer.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. "Sometimes if you build it, they don't come,"

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[LudwigPastorius]

16. Hmm....all that Phillips, and people still don't feel the urge to go?

[EYESORE 9001]

19. Fills me with the urge to defecate

[Quakerfriend]

17. 22 degrees is nothing in NH !!

It most certainly was not the weather!

[Ocelot II]

51. Phillips is from Minnesota, where it's usually much colder.

The weather wasn't the problem. The whole thing is kind of pathetic - he was actually a pretty competent Congressman; he should have stuck to what he was good at.

[EYESORE 9001]

18. I see Dean Phillips has a PAC funded by AI moguls

Hope they pay thru the nose.

[orleans]

20. if people really were interested

what difference would it make that they used a parking garage and came up through the hotel?

doesn't sound like this guy is able to get his message out clearly: I'LL BE IN THE PARKING LOT!! WITH A REPAIR TRUCK!! DON'T ASK AT THE FRONT DESK BECAUSE THEN THEY'LL TELL ME TO MOVE MY TRUCK AND LEAVE THE PARKING LOT

[lame54]

21. His next event will have half that

[cutroot]

24. What an obvious plant. his backers need to be exposed

[shrike3]

26. I couldn't hold my head up after that.

What an embarrassment.

[SWBTATTReg]

27. Obviously your topics aren't that interesting enough for people to come and listen. I'm surprised that you

didn't plan a counter-event, in case of bad weather. Perhaps you should of thought of this? Your excuse 'if you build it, etc.' doesn't sit w/ me very well. You just planned badly, and didn't have a counter-event in case of bad weather. Leaves an big issue in my mind about your abilities to plan, direct, etc. and be 'presidential'.

[yardwork]

32. It wasn't bad weather.

It was 22 degrees, in January in New Hampshire. That's a nice day.

[SWBTATTReg]

40. You're right, that is a 'nice' day up there in NH. I'm in MO (STL), and it's somewhat nasty, they're calling

for perhaps a snow/rain mix, which is already making things a mess here (went to the grocery store, and good grief, everybody and their kitchen sink was there!). I just hope that we don't get too much crap on the ground here, it's already starting to freeze again, and yesterday, they had all kinds of accidents (roads were nasty). I'm just glad that we don't even get near the cars, to go out, it's not worth it. We just wait it out.

[bigtree]

29. just a multi-millionaire sitting in a parking lot grifting in the cold

...for rubes to join his Biden-bashing, weirdly self-aggrandizing and patronizing pretense of a presidential campaign.

The gentry always looks at ease among the workaday locals.

[Cha]

31. Too bad.. Freezing weather wouldn't Stop

me from showing up For someone I liked.

Like Pres Biden!

[yardwork]

34. Think of the numbers who showed up for Biden's inauguration!

In worse weather than this! And everybody who showed up for Obama!

Democrats aren't afraid the cold.

[Cha]

38. No We Are Not! And, I can speak from

below Freezing experience. I used to live in upper state NY by the Adirondacks.

And, I went to NYC on Feb 15, 2003 to Protest bush's War on Iraq.. it was Low 20s then. Brr!

[SCantiGOP]

35. Like Nikki Haley,

he is in a tight battle for second place in his party primary

[WiseElder]

36. I had a birthday party like that once

soooo sad

[CanonRay]

41. No problem, plenty of Russian autocrats and GOP billionaires

to keep it going.

[ZonkerHarris]

42. So people were parking in a garage underground and entering through the hotel but still didn't show up?

hahahahaha
lying scum

[generalbetrayus]

43. Back in the day, when Christine O'Donnell, the alleged "witch" who ran for the Senate from New Jersey,

had a book signing at the Barnes & Noble in Highlands Ranch, CO, south of Denver, I went and lurked in the stacks for the first 40 minutes to see if anyone showed up to have her book signed. Nobody showed up during that time.

[markodochartaigh]

44. Wow

Zero people. That's a hundred times more than I thought he would have gotten.

/s

[betsuni]

45. OMG he's Charlie Brown.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

46. The face you make when you realize Steve Schmidt took your money and ran.

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[NBachers]

47. Dean, we hardly knew ye

[PlutosHeart]

48. Has weathering MN winters taught

him nothing????

And I thought his running was a poor decision.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

49. You've met elf on a shelf. Now get ready for surrender on a fender.

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[sakabatou]

50. As others have asked, who is this guy?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

53. This makes me smile

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