Democratic 2024 presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips, D-MN, called his party “delusional” and President Joe Biden “unelectable” hours before polls closed in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation contest.
“My only regret is that my party just doesn’t want to wake up from this delusion,” Phillips said during a Wednesday morning interview with CNN. “I have a conviction that Joe Biden is going to lose.”
“Someone had to do it,” Phillips said of his decision to challenge the sitting president. And I’m saddened that there’s this culture of cowardice, silence, and people sitting in line waiting for their turn at a time where we need to meet the moment.”
“I believe [Biden’s] unelectable,” Phillips reiterated. “Polls are showing he’s unelectable. Now I think voters will show that he’s unelectable.”
Phillips added later in the interview that “the writing is on the wall” that former President Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee. “If Nikki Haley is in this race a few weeks from now I would be really surprised,” he noted.
Phillips also said he went to a Trump rally for the first time in New Hampshire a few days earlier.
“I had an event across the street, I saw the line of people waiting in the cold for hours, and I thought, ‘What the heck,’” he recounted. “I’m going to be a leader who actually invites people [and] doesn’t condemn them.”
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He said that met “a diverse crowd” of about 50 Trump supporters who were waiting to see the former president speak. “Every single one of them [was] thoughtful, hospitable, [and] friendly,” Phillips said. “All of them [were] so frustrated that they feel nobody is listening to them but Donald Trump.”
“My party is completely delusional right now,” Phillips continued. “Somebody had to wake us up and if that’s my job so be it.”
While talking to the media in New Hampshire, Phillips said that he is only running “to defeat Donald Trump.”
“Nobody seems to want to do that in the Democratic Party right now, other than me,” he added. “Because Joe Biden can’t … because the data says he can’t.”
Phillips went on to claim “no one in the country right now cares” about the Democratic primary race. More people are turning their attention to the Trump campaign “because he’s listening to them,” he said.
“No one’s asking about this stuff,” the congressman emphasized. “I’m just frustrated. I hope you understand why [and] I’m getting tired of it.”
He told reporters that they are “doing [their] jobs” but are “not asking questions that Americans give a s*** about.”
A University of New Hampshire/CNN poll conducted a week before the New Hampshire primary showed Phillips trailing Biden with only 10% of the vote to the president’s 63%. On top of this, Phillips’ name will actually appear on the state’s ballot, while voters will have to write in Biden’s.
As CatholicVote previously reported:
In protest against the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s decision to maintain the state’s tradition of holding its primary before South Carolina’s, Biden has decided to remove his name from the ballot for the contest. However, he is still running as a write-in candidate.
LifeNews Note: Joshua Mercer writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
